Quotes
Quotes - Garrison
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
I am in earnest. I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard!
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never.
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.
Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
You can not possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind.
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
Our country is the world--our countrymen are all mankind.
I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
Where there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
Resolved, That the compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell; involving both parties in atrocious criminality, and should be immediately annulled. - William Lloyd Garrison,
