William Lloyd Garrison: “They touch our country, and their shackles fall!”

In manners, in morals, in philosophy, in religion, in ideas of justice, in notions of law, in theories of government, in valuations or men, they are totally dissimilar.

I will not try to make as good a bargain for the Lord as the Devil will let me, and plead the necessity of a compromise, and regret that I cannot do any better, and be thankful that I can do so much.

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

No alliance with Abolitionists, either in Church or State!" The issue is clear, explicit, determinate.