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My fanaticism is, that I insist on the American people abolishing Slavery, or ceasing to prate of the rights of man.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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gutenberg.orgWilliam Lloyd Garrison: “My fanaticism is, that I insist on the American people abolishing Slavery, or ceasing to prate of the rights of man.”
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Garrison emphasizes the urgency of abolishing slavery as a moral imperative for America.
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Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it ours to exclaim, "No compromise with Slavery!
Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.
It is frightful to think of the capacity of a nation like this to commit sin, before the measure of its iniquities be filled, and the exterminating judgments of God overtake it.
Or is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination?