William Lloyd Garrison: “Why should not the star-spangled banner wave over ten, as well as over three millions of Slaves?”

I will not be a liar, a poltroon, or a hypocrite, to accommodate any party, to gratify any sect, to escape any odium or peril, to save any interest, to preserve any institution, or to promote any object.

While the present Union exists, I pronounce it hopeless to expect any repose, or that any barrier can be effectually raised against the extension of Slavery.

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

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