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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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William Lloyd Garrison
Age: 73 †
Born: 1805
Born: December 12
Died: 1879
Died: May 24
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My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say. My fanaticism is that I insist on the American people abolishing slavery, or ceasing to prate on the rights of man.
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The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
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I am aware that many object to the severity of my language but is there not cause for severity?
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Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.
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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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I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.
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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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Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.
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Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.
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I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
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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 proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
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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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Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
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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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A man's country is the world.
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Liberty for each, for all, and forever!
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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 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.
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That which is not just is not law.
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