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William Lloyd Garrison Activist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Dec 12, 1805
  • Died: May 24, 1879

William Lloyd Garrison 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 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. He promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. In the 1870s, Garrison became a prominent voice for the woman suffrage movement.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never! failure

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

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

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

Thanksgiving November 28, 2024

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. 32 views from William Blake

32 views from William Blake

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6 other views from Franz Grillparzer

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2 quotes from Storm Jameson

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