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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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William Lloyd Garrison
Age: 73 †
Born: 1805
Born: December 12
Died: 1879
Died: May 24
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Newburyport
Massachusetts
William L. Garrison
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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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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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That which is not just is not law.
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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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Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.
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Everyone should be treated fairly no matter what they look like.
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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
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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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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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Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.
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I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
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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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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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