William Lloyd Garrison Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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 will certainly be lost.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Success, Men, Tyrants

  William Lloyd Garrison, Walter McIntosh Merrill, Louis Ruchames (1971). “The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: I will be heard, 1822-1835”, p.101, Harvard University Press

• Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Mother, Men, Fire

  The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831 (first issue)

• To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious... To discard a portion of scripture is not necessarily to reject the truth, but may be the highest evidence that one can give of his love of truth.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Giving, May, His Love

• And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!'

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Passion, Giving, Forever

  Speech in Charleston, South Carolina, April 14, 1865.

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