"Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions……" — William Lloyd Garrison
"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 to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage."
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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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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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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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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government…
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The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a…
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Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than…
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Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but…
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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
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Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings…
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Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs,…
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Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
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