William Lloyd Garrison: “Not to cherish these feelings would be recreancy to principle.”

I will not try to make as good a bargain for the Lord as the Devil will let me, and plead the necessity of a compromise, and regret that I cannot do any better, and be thankful that I can do so much.

Whether it be personal or political, mental or corporeal, intellectual or spiritual, I am for its instant, its total Abolition.

They who desire me to be dumb on the subject of Slavery, unless I will open my mouth in its defence, ask me to give the lie to my professions, to degrade my manhood, and to stain my soul.

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.