Quote #17
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never.
More from William Lloyd Garrison
- Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.
- Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
- 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 wil…
- You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, …
- Unhappily, to borrow the words of Ganganelli, a large majority of mankind are 'mere abortions': calling themselves rational and intelligent…
- That which is not just is not law.
- Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduc…
- Is Error, though unwittingly supported by a host of good men, stronger than Truth? Are Right and Wrong convertible terms, dependant upon po…