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Liberty for each, for all, and forever!

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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Journalist
Social Reformer
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Newburyport
Massachusetts
William L. Garrison
Liberty
Forever

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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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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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Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.
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In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
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There is no safety where there is no strength no strength without Union no Union without justice no justice where faith and truth are wanting. The right to be free is a truth planted in the hearts of men.
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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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A man's country is the world.
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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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Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.
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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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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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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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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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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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The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
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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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Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
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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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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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