Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country and to challenge the admiration of the world. But what a pitiful detail of grievances does this document present in comparison with the wrongs which our slaves endure! -William Lloyd Garrison Independence
I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain life. I believe it is his will that we should hold absolute mastery over time, so as to devote it mainly to intellectual and moral improvement, domestic enjoyment, and social intercourse. -William Lloyd Garrison God
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. -William Lloyd Garrison Success
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. -William Lloyd Garrison Death
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 Government
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 Men
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. -William Lloyd Garrison Freedom
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 Power