Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

William Lloyd Garrison

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Natural law Human rights

Speaker

William Lloyd Garrison

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Speech

Language

English

Time

1853 1850s 19th century

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Abolitionist

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United States

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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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There is grandeur in this view of life...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species

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Charles Darwin
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On the Origin of Species
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English
Time
1859 1850s 19th century
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Original Citation

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 14.

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Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin, 2009, ch. 14.