59 Quotes by William Lloyd Garrison

To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious... To discard a portion of scripture is not necessarily to reject the truth, but may be the highest evidence that one can give of his love of truth.

The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.

Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.

Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.

In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

A man's country is the world.

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.

My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say. My fanaticism is that I insist on the American people abolishing slavery, or ceasing to prate on the rights of man.