William Lloyd Garrison Quotes
"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
(Related: Truth, Justice, Will)
"Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind."
- William Lloyd Garrison
(Related: Country, Mankind, World)
"That which is not just is not law."
- William Lloyd Garrison
(Related: Law)
"The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell."
- William Lloyd Garrison
(Related: Death, Agreement, Hell)
"We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!"
- William Lloyd Garrison
(Related: May, Principles)
"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
(Related: God, Sex, Being, Rights, May)
"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
(Related: Men, Arguments, Reason, Waste, Will)
"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
(Related: Government, Power, People, Rights)
"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
(Related: People, Apathy)
"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."
- William Lloyd Garrison
(Related: Country, Mankind, World)
"Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?"
- William Lloyd Garrison
(Related: Opinion, Popular, Right, Wrong)
"Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril."
- William Lloyd Garrison
(Related: Being, Liberty, World)
"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
(Related: Will)