William Lloyd Garrison Quotes

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

A man is born free.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

All men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

What vested rights so high or so sacred as a man’s right to himself, to his wife and children, to his liberty, and to the fruits of his own industry? Did not our fathers declare that those rights were inalienable?

Generous souls always interest themselves in the fate of a people who strive to recover the rights to which the Creator and Nature have entitled them, and one must indeed be wedded to error and passion not to harbor this noble sentiment

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property.

All men are born free.

I have said that in their right to "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness," as proclaimed in that old Declaration, the inferior races are our equals.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. Every new scene, which is opened to the busy nature of man and rouse and exert itself, is the addition of a new energy to the general stock of effort.

Liberty is an individual, not a collective, right.

No man can divest himself … of his liberty

The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.

America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government because it does not come from government, it comes from the creator of life.

All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature and of self-preservation, to think, and act, and say as they please, while they maintain a due respect to the rights and privileges of all other creatures, infringing upon none.

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.