William Lloyd Garrison Quotes


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


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William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879, Editor & Abolitionist, Quoted in Garrison and Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison: The Story of His Life Told by His Children, 1885-1889

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William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
  • Born: December 10, 1805
  • Died: May 24, 1879
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Abolitionist, Journalist

William Lloyd Garrison, who signed and printed his name Wm. Lloyd Garrison, was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely-read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator, which he founded in 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was abolished by Constitutional amendment in 1865. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and promoted immediate and uncompensated, as opposed to gradual and compensated, emancipation of slaves in the United States.