On the record
In manners, in morals, in philosophy, in religion, in ideas of justice, in notions of law, in theories of government, in valuations or men, they are totally dissimilar.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Garrison highlights the fundamental differences in values between those who support slavery and those who oppose it.
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