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William Lloyd Garrison: “By this sure test, every institution, every party, every form of government, every kind of religion, is to be tried.”

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By this sure test, every institution, every party, every form of government, every kind of religion, is to be tried.
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William Lloyd Garrison

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Garrison asserts that all institutions should be judged based on their respect for individual rights.

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