"The standard of matrimony is erected by affection……" — William Lloyd Garrison
"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 of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart."
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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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It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her…
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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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