Gamaliel Bailey

“Truth is the most powerful auxiliary of right.”

“Neutrality is no favorite with me. It is the ignoble refuge of cold hearts and weak heads.”

“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.”

“Never, never, will we do anything to countenance the idea that a colored man is not a man and a brother.”

“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.”