William Lloyd Garrison

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Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind.

William Lloyd Garrison

Quoted in The Liberator

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Garrison, William Lloyd. Motto of The Liberator. 1831.

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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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Garrison, William Lloyd. Resolution passed by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society meeting. 27 Jan. 1843, Boston, MA, USA.

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I 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

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On American slavery.

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Garrison, William Lloyd. "To the Public." The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831.

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I 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

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Garrison, William Lloyd. "To the Public." The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831.

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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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Garrison, William Lloyd. Speech at a Woman's Rights Convention. Woman's Rights Convention. 6 Sept. 1853, Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, NY, USA.

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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.