William Lloyd Garrison
He is best known for his role as an anti-slavery advocate during the years leading up to the Civil War.
He used his knowledge of the newspaper business and his skill as a writer to promote awareness of the evils of slavery.
He published his newspaper, The Liberator, until the end of the Civil War.
William Lloyd Garrison (December 10, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer.
He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded with Isaac Knapp in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War.
He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States.
He became involved in the anti-slavery movement in the 1820s, and over time he rejected both the American Colonization Society and the gradualist views of most others involved in the movement.
Garrison co-founded The Liberator to espouse his abolitionist views, and in 1832 he organized the New-England Anti-Slavery Society.
This society expanded into the American Anti-Slavery Society, which espoused the position that slavery should be immediately abolished.
Garrison also emerged as a leading advocate of women's rights, which prompted a split in the abolitionist community.
In the 1870s, Garrison became a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement.
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William Lloyd Garrison/Quotes
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 as uncompromising as justice.
Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind.
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.
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
That which is not just is not law.
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
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