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William Lloyd Garrison Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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.
         



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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.





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Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.



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I desire to know wherefore I am banished?



At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

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Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?



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I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.



Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.

Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.



Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.

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