Liberty for each, for all, and forever!
Interpretation
Liberty should be universal and enduring for everyone.
This quote by William Lloyd Garrison emphasizes the importance of freedom and asserts that liberty is not just a privilege for some individuals but a fundamental right that should be accessible to all people at all times. Garrison advocates for a society where everyone, regardless of their background or circumstances, enjoys the same rights to freedom and autonomy, highlighting the moral imperative to promote equality and justice continuously.
In practice
During a speech on human rights, this quote can be used to emphasize the ongoing struggle for equality.
Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.
Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.
I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain life. I believe it is his will that we should hold absolute mastery over time, so as to devote it mainly to intellectual and moral improvement, domestic enjoyment, and social intercourse.
If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the strugglings of Humanity to be free, then let the Church fall and its fragments be scattered to the four winds of Heaven, never more to curse the earth.
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.
Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
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