The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country and to challenge the admiration of the world. But what a pitiful detail of grievances does this document present in comparison with the wrongs which our slaves endure!

We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.

William Lloyd Garrison Quotes