"Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice." — William Lloyd Garrison

"Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice."

— William Lloyd Garrison

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34 Quotes by William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife…
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.
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good…
Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as…
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…
The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or…
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 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,…

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Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population… — Ernst Mayr
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance,… — William Lloyd Garrison
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive… — Mark Levin
The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield… — Stephen Jay Gould
Gradualism towards prisms of their holy isms and schisms. Lackin' vision these minds makin' life givin' planet livin' a prison. — Deri Isaac

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