William Lloyd Garrison: “Cotton is in their ears--blinds are over their eyes--padlocks are upon their lips.”

For one church that excludes the human enslaver from its communion table, multitudes extend to him the right hand of religious fellowship.

It is not a struggle for national salvation; for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery.

There is no North." A sordid, truckling, cowardly, compromising spirit, is everywhere seen.

Hence, I cannot but regard oppression in every form--and most of all, that which turns a man into a thing--with indignation and abhorrence.