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

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Prayer is omnipotent: its breath can melt adamantine rocks - its touch can break the stoutest chains.

~William Lloyd Garrison

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If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements.

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

~William Lloyd Garrison

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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

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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.

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I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

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I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to describe villainy or to identify the perpetrator of it. The man who makes a chattel of his brother - what is he? The man who keeps back the hire of his laborers by fraud - what is he?

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If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the strugglings of Humanity to be free, then let the Church fall and its fragments be scattered to the four winds of Heaven, never more to curse the earth.

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My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.

~William Lloyd Garrison

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: December 12th, 1805

Died: May 24th, 1879

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