The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purit… - William Lloyd Garrison

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The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.

William Lloyd Garrison

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About William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison (12 December 1805 – 24 May 1879) was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.

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The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

I am in earnest
I will not equivocate
I will not excuse
I will not retreat a single inch
And I will be heard.

Let the calumniators of the colored race despise themselves for their baseness and illiberality of spirit, and henceforth cease to talk of the natural inferiority of those who require nothing but time and opportunity to attain to the highest point of human excellence.

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