59 Quotes by William Lloyd Garrison

Let the calumniators of the colored race despise themselves for their baseness and illiberality of spirit, and henceforth cease to talk of the natural inferiority of those who require nothing but time and opportunity to attain to the highest point of human excellence.

Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!

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

The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.

That which is not just is not law.

My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

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