William Lloyd Garrison: “The present American Union, therefore, is only one in form, not in reality.”

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.

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.

In manners, in morals, in philosophy, in religion, in ideas of justice, in notions of law, in theories of government, in valuations or men, they are totally dissimilar.