William Lloyd Garrison: “Every slave becomes free from the moment he touches the Austrian soil, or an Austrian ship.”

Oppression is not a matter of latitude or longitude; here excusable, there to be execrated; here to elevate the oppressor to the highest station, there to hang him by the neck till he is dead; here compatible with Christianity, there to be…

It is, and it always has been, the absolute supremacy of the Slave Power over the whole country--nothing more.

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.

I do not know how to espouse freedom and slavery together.