William Lloyd Garrison Quotes

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.

[Describing slavery:] ... a cruel war against human nature itself.

I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

The very idea that human beings are held in bondage is sickening.

When one person is enslaved, we're all enslaved.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

This is about slavery.

Slavery is the cause of treason and sustains it everywhere it exists.

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

I am a firm believer in slavery.

Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty.

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.

Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the enslaving of the child, as if the wrong of enslaving the parent had never been perpetrated.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

Slavery is the negation of all law, and any law which would perpetuate it would be a sacrilege.

That’s a slave talking.