Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

About This Quote

The moral standard is a standard that cannot be changed by the majority. This quote is a famous quote from William Lloyd Garrison, one of the most influential abolitionists of the early 19th century. He was an American Abolitionist, publisher of The Liberator, and a prominent figure in the antislavery movement. In his time, he was the leader of the Garrisonian movement in New England.

He was a firm believer in "non-resistance" to evil, which he considered a higher morality than that of non-resistance to evil in the form of coercion. He believed that only violent resistance to slavery would bring about a more just society and a better world for all people.

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