Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
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I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or liberty] by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.
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1. Which reform movement is most closely associated with William Lloyd Garrison,
Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Beecher Stowe?
(1) abolitionist (2) labor (3) Populist (4) Progressive
2. One way in which Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Sojourner Truth are similar is that they all supported the
(1) abolitionist movement
(2) passage of Black Codes
(3) nullification theory of States rights
(4) plantation system in the South
Document 1 |
… There were tactical differences between [Frederick] Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, white abolitionist and editor of The Liberator—differences between black [African American] and white abolitionists in general. Blacks were more willing to engage in armed insurrection [rebellion], but also more ready to use existing political devices—the ballot box, the Constitution—anything to further their cause. They were not as morally absolute in their tactics as the Garrisonians. Moral pressure would not do it alone, the blacks knew; it would take all sorts of tactics, from elections to rebellion.… White abolitionists did courageous and pioneering work, on the lecture platform, in newspapers, in the Underground Railroad. Black abolitionists, less publicized, were the backbone of the antislavery movement. Before Garrison published his famous Liberator in Boston in 1831, the first national convention of Negroes had been held, David Walker had already written his “Appeal,” and a black abolitionist magazine named Freedom’s Journal had appeared. Of The Liberator’s first twenty-five subscribers, most were black.… |
According to Document 1, what were three methods used by abolitionists to achieve their goals?
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