You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind.

I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice [...] I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — And I will be heard.

– abolitionist and journalist William Lloyd Garrison, born today in 1805