William Lloyd Garrison: “They are as clay in the hands of the potter, and already moulded into vessels of dishonour, to be used for the vilest…”

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.

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

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.

It is not a question of probabilities, but of time.