Robert E. Lee Quotes About Slavery

Quotes about: Slavery

• So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Believe, Slavery

• There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

  Robert E. Lee

  Believe, Evil, Political

• So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Slavery, Engaging

  Statement to John Leyburn on May 01, 1870. "R. E. Lee: A Biography" by Douglas Southall Freeman, 1934.

• While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who Chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a Single day.

  Robert E. Lee

  Prayer, Mean, Hands

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