William Lloyd Garrison: “For one rebuke of the man-stealer, a thousand denunciations of the Abolitionists are heard.”

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

In manners, in morals, in philosophy, in religion, in ideas of justice, in notions of law, in theories of government, in valuations or men, they are totally dissimilar.

Convince me that liberty is not the inalienable birthright of every human being, of whatever complexion or clime, and I will give that instrument to the consuming fire.

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.