59 Quotes by 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.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

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

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

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.

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.

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

We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.

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!'