William Lloyd Garrison Quotes

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

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

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.

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.

Everyone should be treated fairly no matter what they look like.

No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.

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

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

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.

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

And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!'

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!

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

That which is not just is not law.

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

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

A man's country is the world.

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

Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.

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.

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.

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be beard.

I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.