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Quotes from No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery — William Lloyd Garrison

1805–1879 United States

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Every slave is a stolen man; every slaveholder is a man-stealer. By no precedent, no example, no law, no compact, no purchase, no bequest, no inheritance, no combination of circumstances, is slaveholding right or justifiable. While a slave remains in his fetters, the land must have no rest.

No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery (1854)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Lloyd Garrison (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.