Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition Quotes

“Unsuccessful opposition to crimes of every description invariably increases their power and malignity.”
― Elizabeth Heyrick, Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition

“The moral and rational perceptions of the slave-holder are still more perverted than those of the slave; oppression is more debasing and injurious to the intellect of the oppressor than to that of the oppressed. The gains of unrighteousness have rendered the slave-holder more obstinately, more incurably blind, and inaccesssible to reason, than the slave.”
― Heyrick Elizabeth Coltman, Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition: Or an Inquiry Into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means

“Why petition Parliament, at all, to do that for us, which, were they ever so well disposed, we can do more speedily and more effectively for ourselves.”
― Elizabeth Heyrick, Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition, Or, an Inquiry Into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery