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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
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William Lloyd Garrison
Age: 73 †
Born: 1805
Born: December 12
Died: 1879
Died: May 24
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Massachusetts
William L. Garrison
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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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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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Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.
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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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The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
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Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.
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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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No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no 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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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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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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In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.
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That which is not just is not law.
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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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Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.
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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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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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In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
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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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