William Lloyd Garrison: “My singularity is, that when I say that Freedom is of God, and Slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say.”

How can they receive the same baptism, be admitted to the same communion-table, believe in the same Gospel, and obtain the same heavenly inheritance?

If they were cut loose from their friends at the North (friends that ought to be, and without them, the South had no friends), whither were they to look for protection?

Cotton is in their ears--blinds are over their eyes--padlocks are upon their lips.

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.