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pushes an agenda, pushes a set of moral principles
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by which this movement should be run,
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of course he's immediately begun
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to develop an opposition within his own movement.
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And people will disagree with him.
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But number one, his first idea was moral perfectionism.
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A stern, demanding call for abolitionists
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to remove themselves personally
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from any corrupting complicity with the American slave system.
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"Be ye perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect,"
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Said Garrison.
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He was not a trained minister,