William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrisonwas a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded with Isaac Knapp in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. In the 1870s, Garrison became a prominent voice for the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth12 December 1805
CountryUnited States of America
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?
There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.
I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.
We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.