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William Lloyd Garrison6 quotes
Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind. — William Lloyd Garrison · 1837The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. — William Lloyd Garrison · 1843I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! 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. — William Lloyd Garrison · 1831I am in earnest-I will not equivocate-I will not excuse-I will not retreat a single inch-and I will be heard! — William Lloyd Garrison · 1831Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. — William Lloyd Garrison · 1853Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble. — William Lloyd Garrison · 1831