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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.
William Lloyd Garrison
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"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."
— William Lloyd Garrison

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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. — William Lloyd Garrison

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Who said "If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State peri…"?
This quote is attributed to William Lloyd Garrison, a Journalist from United States.
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William Lloyd Garrison lived from 1805 – 1879.