Everywhere to do homage to it, to avoid collision with it, to propitiate its favour, is deemed essential--nay, is essential to political preferment and ecclesiastical advancement.
William Lloyd Garrison
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William Lloyd Garrison was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. His widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator was a driving force that fueled the abolitionist era, which Garrison founded in 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. He supported the rights of women, and during the 1870s became a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement.
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For one church that excludes the human enslaver from its communion table, multitudes extend to him the right hand of religious fellowship.
— William Lloyd Garrison
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Cotton is in their ears--blinds are over their eyes--padlocks are upon their lips.
Nay, cannot all the despotisms of the earth take shelter under them?
If they are valid, then why is not the jesuitical doctrine, that the end sanctifies them, and that it is right to do evil that good may come, morally sound?
Whether it be personal or political, mental or corporeal, intellectual or spiritual, I am for its instant, its total Abolition.
Every slave is a stolen man; every slaveholder is a man-stealer.
The act, in both cases, is essentially the same--equally inhuman, immoral, piratical.
Oppression is not a matter of latitude or longitude; here excusable, there to be execrated; here to elevate the oppressor to the highest station, there to hang him by the neck till he is dead; here compatible with Christianity, there to be…
By the Declaration of Independence, he is pronounced a man-stealer.
There is no North." A sordid, truckling, cowardly, compromising spirit, is everywhere seen.
I do not know how to espouse freedom and slavery together.