List of William Lloyd Garrison Quotes

Our Country Is The World-our Countrymen Are All Mankind.

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.

To Say That Everything In The Bible Is To Be Believed , Simply Because It Is Found In That Volume, Is Equally Absurd And Pernicious... To Discard A Portion Of Scripture Is Not Necessarily To Reject The Truth, But May Be The Highest Evidence That One Can Give Of His Love Of Truth.

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.

Gradualism In Theory Is Perpetuity In Practice.

I Will Be As Harsh As Truth And As Uncompromising As Justice.

The Apathy Of The People Is Enough To Make Every Statue Leap From Its Pedestal And Hasten The Resurrection Of The Dead.

Slavery Will Not Be Overthrown Without Excitement, A Most Tremendous Excitement.

The Success Of Any Great Moral Enterprise Does Not Depend Upon Numbers.

A Man's Country Is The World.

Let Southern Oppressors Tremble-let Their Secret Abettors Tremble-let Their Northern Apologists Tremble-let All The Enemies Of The Persecuted Blacks Tremble.

Better To Be Always In A Minority Of One With God - Branded As Madman, Incendiary, Fanatic, Heretic, Infidel - Frowned Upon By "the Powers That Be," And Mobbed By The Populace - Or Consigned Ignominiously To The Gallows, Like Him Whose "soul Is Marching On," Though His "body Lies Mouldering In The Grave," Or Burnt To Ashes At The Stake Like Wickliffe, Or Nailed To The Cross Like Him Who "gave Himself For The World," - In Defence Of The Right, Than Like Herod, Having The Shouts Of A Multitude Crying, "it Is The Voice Of A God, And Not Of A Man!"