- "*Let us never say that God has set such impassable barriers between us and our fellow men that we cannot understand their feelings, or be moved to relieve their wants and sorrows.*"
- "*When a man has broken his moral sense and conscience with regard to the sacred rights of the weak and defenceless, he is hardened and deadened to that degree of moral insensibility that he would break all the laws and commandments of his God, without any compunction whatever.*"
- "*Prejudice against color, even in its mildest form, is a moral disease, and it is just as dangerous to the soul of the person infected by it, as it is unjust to the person against whom it is exercised.*"
- "*The cause of freedom, justice and humanity, demands the abolition of slavery, not from the slave states alone, but from the whole nation; nor from the nation only, but from the world.*"
- "*Slavery is a reproach to our free institutions, a libel upon our religion, a blight upon our national prosperity and a violation of common justice and humanity.*"
- "*The only safety for the nation lies in the abolition of slavery.*"