"Has not the experience of two centuries shown……" — William Lloyd Garrison
"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 world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?"
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William Lloyd Garrison
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34 Quotes by William Lloyd Garrison
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Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.
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In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
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Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.
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Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good…
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Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as…
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The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
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It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her…
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The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or…
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Liberty for each, for all, and forever!
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In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.
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