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. – William Lloyd Garrison
We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others. – William Lloyd Garrison
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. – 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
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
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
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
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
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. – William Lloyd Garrison
