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Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
William Lloyd Garrison
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William Lloyd Garrison
Age: 73 †
Born: 1805
Born: December 12
Died: 1879
Died: May 24
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Massachusetts
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The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
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Liberty for each, for all, and forever!
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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.
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The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
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You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
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It is for us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. To be no better, no wiser, no greater than the past is to be little and foolish and bad it is to misapply noble means, to sacrifice glorious opportunities for the performance of sublime deeds, to become cumberers of the ground.
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The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.
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In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
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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.
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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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Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
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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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Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
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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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And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!'
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That which is not just is not law.
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Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.
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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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I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
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Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.
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