They insult the common sense and shock the moral nature of mankind.
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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Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Inhale our air, that moment they are free!
They touch our country, and their shackles fall!
I deny the right--I acknowledge not the property!
The principles, the feelings of our nature, rise in rebellion against it.
Again--take these slaveholding pleas to Scotland and from the graves of the dead and the homes of the living, they shall be replied to in thunder-tones in the language of Burns: "A man's a man, for all that.
I'd rather hold my neck By doubtful tenure from a Sultan's beck, In climes where liberty has scarce been nam'd, Nor any right but that of ruling claim'd, Than thus to live where boasted Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves!
I care not what caste, creed or colour, Slavery may assume.
Every slave becomes free from the moment he touches the Austrian soil, or an Austrian ship.
Thus do I prove that, in regard to personal liberty--the right of every man to the ownership of his own body--even Italy, Austria and Tunis are in advance of this boasted Republic, and put it to open shame!
The Abolitionism which I advocate is as absolute as the law of God, and as unyielding as His throne.
I do not know how to espouse freedom and slavery together.