William Lloyd Garrison: “God never made a human being either for destruction or degradation.”

The act, in both cases, is essentially the same--equally inhuman, immoral, piratical.

The Northwest Territory, Nebraska, Mexico, Cuba, Hayti, the Sandwich Islands, and colonial possessions in the tropics--to seize and subjugate these to its accursed reign, and ultimately to re-establish the foreign Slave Trade as a lawful…

Not to cherish these feelings would be recreancy to principle.

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.