William Lloyd Garrison: “Cotton is in their ears--blinds are over their eyes--padlocks are upon…”

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Cotton is in their ears--blinds are over their eyes--padlocks are upon their lips.

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Garrison emphasizes the ignorance and oppression faced by those in bondage.

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It is not a struggle for national salvation; for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery.

But how long it is to curse the earth, and desecrate his image, he alone foresees.

Yet I know that God reigns, and that the slave system contains within itself the elements of destruction.

Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.

William Lloyd Garrison: “Cotton is in their ears--blinds are over their eyes--padlocks are upon their lips.”