William Lloyd Garrison Quotes

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.

Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never.