William Lloyd Garrison Quotes
Man above all institutions!
Many people who were opposed to slavery, were not willing to take any draconian steps to end or curtail the practice as every proposal had implications for the existing institutions in the country and the society. Starting with the Union itself and the Congress and the government, churches, associations, states, even families were irrevocably split.
William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879, Editor & Abolitionist, Slogan
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Spinoza was one of the most feared intellectuals in human history—feared that is by the established power structures. He is the only known person who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims—all were forbidden to read his works. He was the enemy of authority and advocated personal reason as the guide for men.
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.
