William Lloyd Garrison Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Maintain, Equal

• 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.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tyrants, Reason, Waste, Will, Men

• 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

  Topics in God

  Tags in Rights, Human Being, Inherent, Wherever

• We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Defeated, Principles

• The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Agreement, Covenant, Hell

• The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Tags in Apathy, Statue, Pedestal, Hasten

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

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Topics in Country, Love

  Tags in World, Land, Mankind

• My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Topics in Country

• I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice… 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

  Topics in Justice, Truth

  Tags in Earnest, Retreat, Will

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Earnest, Retreat, Inch, Will

• Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Enslave, Peril, World

• Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Tags in Popular, Terms, Right And Wrong

• 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

  Tags in Moderation, Radicals

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

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Ethics

William Lloyd Garrison (14)

Birth:	10th December, 1805
Death:	24th May, 1879
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Abolitionist, Journalist, Social Reformer

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