American - Journalist | December 10, 1805 - May 24, 1879
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!
William Lloyd Garrison
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Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
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Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country and to challenge the admiration of the world. But what a pitiful detail of grievances does this document present in comparison with the wrongs which our slaves endure!
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Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
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Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
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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.
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I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain life. I believe it is his will that we should hold absolute mastery over time, so as to devote it mainly to intellectual and moral improvement, domestic enjoyment, and social intercourse.
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That which is not just is not law.
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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.
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If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements.
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If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the strugglings of Humanity to be free, then let the Church fall and its fragments be scattered to the four winds of Heaven, never more to curse the earth.
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The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
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