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• Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Slavery, Excitement

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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

  Causes, Language, Objects

  William Lloyd Garrison (1852). “Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...”, p.63

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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.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Giving, May, His Love

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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.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Heart, Color, Water

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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

  Practice, Two, Tasks

  William Lloyd Garrison, Bruce Rogers (1905). “The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison”

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• The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Success, Numbers, Doe

  William Lloyd Garrison, Walter McIntosh Merrill, Louis Ruchames (1971). “The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: I will be heard, 1822-1835”, p.519, Harvard University Press

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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.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Justice, Diversity, Southern

  William Lloyd Garrison (1852). “Selections from the Writings and Speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an Appendix ...”, p.62

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• Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Integrity, Men, Practice

  William Lloyd Garrison (1832). “Thoughts on African Colonization: Or an Impartial Exhibition of the Doctrines, Principles and Purposes of the American Colonization Society. Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of Color”, p.6

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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.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Rights, Government, Hands

  William Lloyd Garrison, Bruce Rogers (1905). “The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison”

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• A man's country is the world.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Country, Men, World

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• In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Truth, Heroic, Embrace

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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.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Wine, Tyrants, World

  William Lloyd Garrison (1885). “The Story of his Life”

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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.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Mean, Sacrifice, Past

  William Lloyd Garrison (1852). “Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...”, p.259

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• Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Practice, Liberty, Libertarian

  William Lloyd Garrison, Bruce Rogers (1905). “The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison”

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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.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Superstitions, Pillars, Sabbath

  William Lloyd Garrison (1852). “Selections from the Writings and Speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an Appendix ...”, p.100

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• Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Country, Revenge, Patriotism

  'The Liberator' 15 December 1837 Prospectus

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