“Never, never, will we do anything to countenance the idea that a colored man is not a man and a brother.”— Gamaliel Bailey
“We have no patent for a specific remedy for slavery. But this we do believe, that if the entire system could be discussed, as a moral, social, and political evil, the people of the slave-holding States, themselves, would find out some way of removing it.”— Gamaliel Bailey
“I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world, but this I know, that I was never mean enough to despise any man because he was ignorant, or because he was poor, or because he was black.”— John Albion Andrew
“The cause of peace has had my share of efforts, and the slave has had my sympathies.”— Lucretia Mott
“We must speak and write in the spirit of kindness; we must reason and expostulate, not denounce and vituperate; we must look to the reformation of the slave-holder, as well as to the deliverance of the slave.”— Gamaliel Bailey
“A man is no more a slave because he is born to a slave, than he is a sinner because he is born to a sinner.”— Lysander Spooner
“I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.”— William Lloyd Garrison
“And if we have any love to our country, and desire for its welfare, we shall renounce this evil, and put it away from us.”— Samuel Hopkins
“The wickedness of the pro-slavery party must be met by the wisdom and courage of the free state party, and I have good reason to hope that it will be.”— Amos Adams Lawrence
“I am an abolitionist from the start to the end. I am for the total, unconditional, and immediate abolition of slavery.”— Martin Delany
“This selling of arms is a new business to me, but I think it is a good one under the circumstances.”— Amos Adams Lawrence
“I would have this a free State, if I have to give all my property and my life to make it so.”— Amos Adams Lawrence
“If, while I hear the shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?”— Lucy Stone