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In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.
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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I am aware that many object to the severity of my language but is there not cause for severity?
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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
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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 will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
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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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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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In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
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Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.
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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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Everyone should be treated fairly no matter what they look like.
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