William Lloyd Garrison Quotes

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• Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the…
• Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.
• In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
• Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.
• Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and…
• Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.
• The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
• It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove…
• The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty…
• Liberty for each, for all, and forever!
• Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the…
• In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.
• To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious...…
• And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all,…
• We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
• I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.
• I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
• No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.
• A man's country is the world.
• I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?

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