“In attacking the system of slavery, I clearly foresaw all that has happened to me. I knew, at the commencement, that my motives would be impeached, my warnings ridiculed, my person persecuted, my sanity doubted, my life jeoparded : but the clank of the prisoner’s chains broke upon my ear — it entered deeply into my soul — I looked up to Heaven for strength to sustain me in the perilous work of emancipation — and my resolution was taken.”
– William Lloyd Garrison
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William Lloyd Garrison Quote Sources:
- William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of The Liberator. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2017660623/>.
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