William Lloyd Garrison: “What! is it going too far to ask, for those who have been outraged and plundered all their lives long, nothing but…”

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

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.

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.

How were they to sustain an assault from England or France, with the cancer at their vitals?