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I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.
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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The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level nature will have free course and heart will answer to heart.
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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
William Lloyd Garrison
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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Liberty for each, for all, and forever!
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With reasonable men, I will reason with humane men I will plead but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
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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?
William Lloyd Garrison
In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
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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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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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A man's country is the world.
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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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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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Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.
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There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.
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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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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?
William Lloyd Garrison
To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious... To discard a portion of scripture is not necessarily to reject the truth, but may be the highest evidence that one can give of his love of truth.
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Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
William Lloyd Garrison
Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.
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