Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
Life
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Quotes by William Lloyd Garrison
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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.
Truth
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
Freedom
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
Life
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!
Wisdom
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
Wisdom
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
Wisdom
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.
Life
That which is not just is not law.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
Wisdom
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
Life
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
Success