American - Journalist | December 10, 1805 - May 24, 1879
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
William Lloyd Garrison
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Prayer is omnipotent: its breath can melt adamantine rocks - its touch can break the stoutest chains.
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Let anti-slavery charity boxes stand uppermost among those for missionary, tract and educational purposes. On this subject, Christians have been asleep; let them shake off their slumbers and arm for the holy contest.
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The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
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I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to describe villainy or to identify the perpetrator of it. The man who makes a chattel of his brother - what is he? The man who keeps back the hire of his laborers by fraud - what is he?
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Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.
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The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
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We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.
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The existing governments of the world are the consequence of disobedience to the commands of God. But Christ came to bring men back to obedience by a new and living way.
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Whether permitted to live to witness the abolition of slavery or not, I felt assured that, as I demanded nothing that was not clearly in accordance with justice and humanity, some time or other, if remembered at all, I should stand vindicated in the eyes of my countrymen.
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Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set free.
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My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
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