If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be much greater. The ‘art of leaving off’ at the right time, and in the right place, is one of the most difficult things to learn. William Lloyd Garrison Read Quote
Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set free. William Lloyd Garrison Read Quote
Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place. William Lloyd Garrison Read Quote
Let anti-slavery charity boxes stand uppermost among those for missionary, tract and educational purposes. On this subject, Christians have been asleep; let them shake off their slumbers and arm for the holy contest. William Lloyd Garrison Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others. William Lloyd Garrison Read Quote
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. William Lloyd Garrison Read Quote
Prayer is omnipotent: its breath can melt adamantine rocks – its touch can break the stoutest chains. William Lloyd Garrison Read Quote
The existing governments of the world are the consequence of disobedience to the commands of God. But Christ came to bring men back to obedience by a new and living way. William Lloyd Garrison Read Quote
