William Lloyd Garrison: “She has given respectability, security, and the means of sustenance and attack to her deadliest foe.”

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

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

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.

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.