In existographies, William Garrison (1805-1879) (IQ:145|#668) (Cattell 1000:592) (CR:3) was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer, noted for []

Religion
Garrison’s anti-religious views were akin to those of Thomas Paine, whose views he did, however, read until Nov 1845; the following is a representative view:

“The Bible should be judged by its reasonableness and utility, by the probabilities of the case, by historical confirmation, by human experience and observation, by the facts of science, by the intuition of the spirit. Truth is older than any parchment.”
— William Garrison (1845), “Article” [1]

Garrison’s objection of religion stemmed, in part, for the oft-used literal interpretation of the Bible to justify slavery.

Influences
Garrison, supposedly, was influenced by Jonathan Dymond and his 1834 Essays on the Principles of Morality. [3]

Influenced
Garrison is said to have influenced Henry Thoreau and his Civil Disobedience. [3]

Quotes | On
The following are quotes on Garrison:

“To write of the Civil War without Garrison is to write of the American Revolution without Tom Paine, the labor movement without Eugene Debs, the civil rights movement without Bob Moses, or feminism without Elizabeth Stanton.”
— Henry Mayer (1998), All on Fire [2]

Quotes | By
The following are quotes by Garrison:

“I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.”
— William Garrison (c.1835)

“With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.”
— William Garrison (c.1835) (Ѻ)

References
1. (a) Garrison, William. (1845). “Article”, Liberator.
(b) Jacoby, Susan. (2004). Freethinkers: a History of American Secularism (pg. 73). Publisher.
2. Jacoby, Susan. (2004). Freethinkers: a History of American Secularism (pg. 71). Publisher.
3. Adams, Richard N. (1988). The Eighth Day: Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy (pg. 174). University of Texas Press.

External links
● William Lloyd Garrison – Wikipedia.