William Lloyd Garrison
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"William Lloyd Garrison" was a prominent American Abolitionism in the United States/abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator (anti-slavery newspaper)/The Liberator, which he founded in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He promoted "immediate emancipation" of Slavery in the United States/slaves in the United States. In the 1870s, Garrison became a prominent voice for the Women's suffrage in the United States/woman suffrage movement.

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

Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

That which is not just is not law.

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.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail.

It's not so much the students, ... I have seen parental influencing and I think that plays a big part too.

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.

I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.