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Fortunate, most fortunate occurrence! — fortunate for the millions of his manacled brethren, yet pan...

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I...

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The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurr...

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

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I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I w...

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

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quar...

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

Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to se...

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I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain ...

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

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The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, o...

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

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You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, wi...

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

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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

That which is not just is not law.

Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go ...

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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William Lloyd Garrison

Journalist

Born: 1805-12-12

Died: 1879-05-24

William Lloyd Garrison (12 December 1805 – 24 May 1879) was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.More