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William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison (December 10, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded with Isaac Knapp in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States.

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Liberty for each, for all, and forever!

Forever, Liberty

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

Agreement, Covenant, Exists, Slavery

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

Broader, Government, Hands, Maintain, Rights

A man's country is the world.

Country, Men, World

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

Compromise, Expedience, Gained, Principles, Slavery, Wisdom

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

Apathy, Empathy, Leap, Pedestal, People, Statue

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Lost, Men, Quarter, Reason, Success, Tyrants

My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say. My fanaticism is that I insist on the American people abolishing slavery, or ceasing to prate on the rights of man.

Evil, Mean, Men, Rights, Say, Singularity

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

Complexion, Diversity, Rights, Sex

What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain that the only issue is, the support of the government and the preservation of the Union? Surely, they are "fools and blind"; for it is slaveholders alone who have conspired to seize the one, and overturn the other. As long as the enslavement of a single human being is sanctioned in the land, the curse of God will rest upon it.

Deadly, Government, Issues, Land, Seize, Slavery

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.

Country, Insult, Interests, Revenge, Rights

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice. . . I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

Earnest, Excuse, Justice, Retreat, Truth, Uncompromising

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

Practice, Liberty, Libertarian, Gradualism, Theory

In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

Become, Divine, Embrace, Heroic, Truth

Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

Integrity, Men, Practice, Conduct, Moral

It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh.

Church, Down, Flesh, Hands, Heaven, Religion

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

Creation, Cruelly, Tyrant, Tyrants, Wine, World

That which is not just is not law.

Law

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

Depend, Doe, Moral, Numbers, Success

The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.

Pillars, Religion, Sabbath, Stronghold, Superstition, Superstitions

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