William Lloyd Garrison: “What right have I to be free, that another man cannot prove himself to possess by nature?”

No insult or outrage, no deed of impiety or blood, on the part of the South, can startle us into resistance, or inspire us with self-respect.

I do not know how to worship God and Mammon at the same time.

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

While the present Union exists, I pronounce it hopeless to expect any repose, or that any barrier can be effectually raised against the extension of Slavery.