William Lloyd Garrison: “The act, in both cases, is essentially the same--equally inhuman, immoral, piratical.”

Everywhere to do homage to it, to avoid collision with it, to propitiate its favour, is deemed essential--nay, is essential to political preferment and ecclesiastical advancement.

A million of slaves were ready to rise and strike for freedom at the first tap of the drum.

It is only when we come to the dividing line between the Free States and the Slave States that shoals, breakers and whirlpools beset the ship of State, and threaten to engulf or strand it.

I do not know how to espouse freedom and slavery together.