The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
More quotes from William Lloyd Garrison
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
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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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Our country is the world – our countrymen are all mankind.
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I am in earnest – I will not equivocate – I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single inch – and I will be heard!
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Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
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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.
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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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My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
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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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The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
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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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That which is not just is not law.
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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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The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
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