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Top 30 William Lloyd Garrison Quotes (2025 Update)

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.”

1. “With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.”

2. “I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.”

3. “In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “Everyone should be treated fairly no matter what they look like.”

4. “Everyone should be treated fairly no matter what they look like.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.”

5. “Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.”

6. “Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.”

7. “I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “There must be no compromise with slavery – none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.”

8. “There must be no compromise with slavery – none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “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 in a cause like the present.”

9. “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 in a cause like the present.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say. My fanaticism is that I insist on the American people abolishing slavery, or ceasing to prate on the rights of man.”

10. “My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say. My fanaticism is that I insist on the American people abolishing slavery, or ceasing to prate on the rights of man.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?”

11. “Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “That which is not just is not law.”

12. “That which is not just is not law.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.”

13. “No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.”

14. “The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.”

15. “The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.”

16. “Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?”

17. “I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “There is no safety where there is no strength; no strength without Union; no Union without justice; no justice where faith and truth are wanting. The right to be free is a truth planted in the hearts of men.”

19. “There is no safety where there is no strength; no strength without Union; no Union without justice; no justice where faith and truth are wanting. The right to be free is a truth planted in the hearts of men.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “Liberty for each, for all, and forever!”

20. “Liberty for each, for all, and forever!”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.”

21. “Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: ‘Liberty for each, for all, and forever!’”

22. “And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: ‘Liberty for each, for all, and forever!’”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “A man’s country is the world.”

23. “A man’s country is the world.”

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William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.”

24. “The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.”

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William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.”

25. “The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.”

26. “Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.”

27. “In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.”

29. “You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!”

30. “We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “Let the calumniators of the colored race despise themselves for their baseness and illiberality of spirit, and henceforth cease to talk of the natural inferiority of those who require nothing but time and opportunity to attain to the highest point of human excellence.”

31. “Let the calumniators of the colored race despise themselves for their baseness and illiberality of spirit, and henceforth cease to talk of the natural inferiority of those who require nothing but time and opportunity to attain to the highest point of human excellence.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Quote: “Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?”

32. “Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?”

— William Lloyd Garrison

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