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William Lloyd Garrison: How is it that I am a madman, and you are perfectly rational?

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How is it that I am a madman, and you are perfectly rational?
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William Lloyd Garrison

Editor's note · Context

Garrison questions societal perceptions of sanity in relation to his abolitionist views.

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