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Show me the party that can obtain supremacy only by trampling upon human individuality and personal sovereignty, and you will thereby pronounce sentence of death upon it.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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This quote reflects Garrison's view that any political party that undermines individual rights is doomed to fail.
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