William Lloyd Garrison: “They insult the common sense and shock the moral nature of mankind.”

For one church that excludes the human enslaver from its communion table, multitudes extend to him the right hand of religious fellowship.

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.

Nay, cannot all the despotisms of the earth take shelter under them?

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