"It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the……" — William Lloyd Garrison
"It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh."
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William Lloyd Garrison
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34 Quotes by William Lloyd Garrison
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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife…
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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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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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Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance,…
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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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To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume,…
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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