William Lloyd Garrison: “I cannot talk of toleration, because it supposes that a boon has been given to a human being, in allowing him to have…”

It is, and it always has been, the absolute supremacy of the Slave Power over the whole country--nothing more.

I will not try to make as good a bargain for the Lord as the Devil will let me, and plead the necessity of a compromise, and regret that I cannot do any better, and be thankful that I can do so much.

The act, in both cases, is essentially the same--equally inhuman, immoral, piratical.

I do not know how to worship God and Mammon at the same time.