Abolitionist Movement
1. I am an Abolitionist! I glory in the name;
Though now by slavery’s minions hissed, And covered o’er with shame; It is a spell of light and power, The watch-word of the free; Who spurns it in the trial-hour, A craven soul is he. 2. I am an Abolitionist! Then urge me not to pause, For joyfully do I enlist In Freedom’s sacred cause; A nobler strife the world ne’er saw, Th’enslaved to disenthral; I am a soldier for the war, Whatever may befall. |
3. I am an Abolitionist! Oppression’s deadly foe;
In God’s great strength will I resist, And lay the monster low; In God’s great name do I demand, To all be freedom given, That peace and joy may fill the land, And songs go up to heaven. 4. I am an Abolitionist! No threats shall awe my soul; No perils cause me to desist, No bribes my acts control; A freeman will I live and die, In sunshine and in shade, And raise my voice for liberty, Of nought on earth afraid. |
-William Lloyd Garrison, Old Lang Syne
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