William Lloyd Garrison: “Who or what are my wife and children, that they should not be herded with four-footed beasts, as well as others thus…”

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.

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

And whom will a just God hold responsible for all these results?

It is not a question of probabilities, but of time.