I will be as harsh as truth, and 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.

The resolution prompted sharp debate however by critics — led by his long-time ally Wendell Phillips — who argued that the mission of the AAS was not fully completed until black Southerners gained full political and civil equality. ” After his apprenticeship ended he and a young printer named Isaac Knapp bought their own newspaper the short lived Free Press. In 1853 Garrison credited Reverend John Rankin of Ohio as a primary influence on his career calling him his "anti-slavery father" and saying that Rankin's ".

He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator and was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. William Lloyd Garrison (December 10 1805 – May 24 1879) was a prominent American abolitionist journalist and social reformer. Garrison was also a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement.