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

- William Lloyd Garrison

My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.

- William Lloyd Garrison

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

- William Lloyd Garrison

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

- William Lloyd Garrison

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.

- William Lloyd Garrison

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

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

- William Lloyd Garrison

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

- William Lloyd Garrison

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

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

That which is not just is not law.

- William Lloyd Garrison

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

- William Lloyd Garrison

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

- William Lloyd Garrison

We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.

- William Lloyd Garrison