William Lloyd Garrison: “While a slave remains in his fetters, the land must have no rest.”

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.

If they were cut loose from their friends at the North (friends that ought to be, and without them, the South had no friends), whither were they to look for protection?

By the Declaration of Independence, he is pronounced a man-stealer.

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