This post has been updated with lots of more quotes, including from such notables as “Amazing Grace” author John Newton, influential abolitionists William Wilberforce and Frederick Douglass, Salvation Army co-founder Catherine Booth, and prayer warrior and founder of the Bristol orphan homes, George Muller.
“I am with you in your opposition to Compulsory Vaccination. My logical faculty was offended at it long ago. At best it was simply boring one hole to stop another, and now it seems not even to do that, if men die of small-pox after vaccination.” — Frederick Douglass, 1882
“Who shall say that the Creator did not make his work perfect and complete, that He did not place every element or principle in the blood of the child necessary to its health, where the laws of its being are observed? Yet Vaccination stands forth to assert this monstrous blasphemy!” — W. Halket
Mandated vaccination is “nothing short of a compulsion on every man to suffer the veins of his child to be impregnated with the disease of a beast, or, to expose its life to the utmost violence of the most furious and most fatal of all human contagions …” — William Cobbett to William Wilberforce, 1803
While arm-to-arm smallpox vaccination is currently not the norm, science has greatly expanded the kinds of poisons that modern vaccination delivers. Vaccination today is thus just a more technologically advanced version of blood poisoning and debasement.