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William Lloyd Garrison

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With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.


— William Lloyd Garrison


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Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?


— William Lloyd Garrison


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I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.


— William Lloyd Garrison


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The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.


— William Lloyd Garrison


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I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!


— William Lloyd Garrison


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Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.


— William Lloyd Garrison


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My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.


— William Lloyd Garrison


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Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.


— William Lloyd Garrison


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The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.


— William Lloyd Garrison


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The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.


— William Lloyd Garrison


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The resolution prompted sharp debate however by critics — led by his long-time ally Wendell Phillips — who argued that the mission of the AAS was not fully completed until black Southerners gained full political and civil equality. ” After his apprenticeship ended he and a young printer named Isaac Knapp bought their own newspaper the short lived Free Press. In 1853 Garrison credited Reverend John Rankin of Ohio as a primary influence on his career calling him his "anti-slavery father" and saying that Rankin's ".

He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator and was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. William Lloyd Garrison (December 10 1805 – May 24 1879) was a prominent American abolitionist journalist and social reformer. Garrison was also a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement.

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