Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
– William Lloyd Garrison
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.
– William Lloyd Garrison
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
– William Lloyd Garrison
Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.
– William Lloyd Garrison
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
That which is not just is not law.
– William Lloyd Garrison
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
– William Lloyd Garrison
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
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
– William Lloyd Garrison
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
– William Lloyd Garrison
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
– William Lloyd Garrison
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
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.