William Lloyd Garrison: “How rich, how poor, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man!”

Convince me that liberty is not the inalienable birthright of every human being, of whatever complexion or clime, and I will give that instrument to the consuming fire.

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

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

Cotton is in their ears--blinds are over their eyes--padlocks are upon their lips.