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William Lloyd Garrison   /wˈɪljəm lɔɪd gˈærɪsən/   Listen
William Lloyd Garrison

noun
1.
United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879).  Synonym: Garrison.






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"William lloyd garrison" Quotes from Famous Books



... at a public breakfast given to William Lloyd Garrison, in St. James's Hall, at which ...
— Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 • John Bright

... fanaticism in the States; New York had always been in sympathy, for the most part with the Southern States, where slavery was a necessary institution to the climate and the cotton industry. He went on to tell me that about a year before a maniacal cobbler named William Lloyd Garrison had started a little paper called The Liberator in which he advocated slave insurrections and the overthrow of the laws sustaining slavery; and that a movement was now on foot in New England to found the American ...
— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters

... a sterner taskmaster, a more pettishly exacting employer. By the living guts of William Lloyd Garrison, he raged, had no one ever driven the simple elements of punctuation into my bloody head? Had no schoolmaster in moments of heroic enthusiasm attempted to pound a few rules of rhetoric through my incrassate skull? ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore

... significantly. "You seem to enjoy the independence of your own opinion, colonel. Just prove this nigger's a white, and I'll give you a release for him, after paying the fees. You better move to Massachusetts, and preach that doctrine to William Lloyd Garrison ...
— Manuel Pereira • F. C. Adams

... of our great reformers, William Lloyd Garrison must always hold a very prominent place. The work he did was that of unselfish devotion to an overmastering sense of justice. He labored for those in bonds, as bound with them. Faithful, as but few others were faithful, ...
— The True Citizen, How To Become One • W. F. Markwick, D. D. and W. A. Smith, A. B.



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