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Letter "W" » William Lloyd Garrison Quotes
«My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
countryman, countrymen, My Country
«Our country is the world, our countrymen all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us, than are those of the whole human race.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
countryman, countrymen, lands, Nativity
«The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
agreement, compact, compacted, covenant, covenanted, covenants, in the north, North, North A, North and South, North by, South, the North, the South, to the north
«The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
apathy, hasten, pedestal, pedestals, resurrection, resurrection of the dead, The Resurrection
«I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?»
«We may be personally defeated, but our principles never.»
«No chains can bind it, and no cell enclose:Swifter than light, it flies from pole to pole,And, in a flash, from earth to heaven it goes!»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
cell, chains, enclose, enclosed, encloses, enclosing, flash, in a flash, pole, poles, swifter
«Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
cruelly, intemperance, The Creation, treated, tyrant
«I claim to be a human rights man , and wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or the complexion. Our rights are equal, and whoever tramples on them is either a ruffian or a tyrant, unwilling that justice should reign in the world.»
«The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
depend upon, enterprise
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