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I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
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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In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.
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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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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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Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
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Everyone should be treated fairly no matter what they look like.
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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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You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
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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?
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In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
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The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
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That which is not just is not law.
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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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Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.
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Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS
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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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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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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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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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Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.
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