William Lloyd Garrison: “No man can show that I have taken one step beyond the line of justice, or forgotten the welfare of the master in my…”

Convince me that one man may rightfully make another man his slave, and I will no longer subscribe to the Declaration of Independence.

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.

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

They can never be reconciled--never walk together--never consent to a truce--never deal in honeyed phrases--never worship at the same altar--never acknowledge the same God.