Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
About William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrisonwas an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator, which Garrison founded in 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.
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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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