William Lloyd Garrison: “If they are valid, then why is not the jesuitical doctrine, that the end sanctifies them, and that it is right to do…”

Whether it be personal or political, mental or corporeal, intellectual or spiritual, I am for its instant, its total Abolition.

With the North, the preservation of the Union is placed above all other things--above honour, justice, freedom, integrity of soul, the Decalogue and the Golden Rule--the Infinite God himself.

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.

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