“Many of the men were feeling headachy but the doctors discovered that just before they boarded a train for Gettysburg, they had received typhoid fever shots. … The next morning, alarming reports started to reach me. Some of the new men, I was told, were registering high fevers and were obviously very ill. The camp surgeon immediately took countermeasures Before noon, ‘Spanish flu’ was recognized.”
“Though doctors have been told for years that vaccination is always dangerous and may be a murderous practice, they nevertheless continue the gainful practice, preferring it, we repeat, to the risk they know they run, of taking away life. Then, when it results in death, that death must be a murder.” — National Anti-Compulsory-Vaccination Reporter, 1880
“During this period some persons made a business of smearing needles with poison and then pricking with them whomsoever they would. Many persons who were thus attacked died without even knowing the cause, but many of the murderers were informed against and punished. And this sort of thing happened not only in Rome but over practically the whole world.” — Cassius Dio
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