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what the nineteenth century called non-resistance.
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Garrison rejected all acts of violence, in any form--
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well, until the Civil War broke out.
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More on that later.
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His third principle was anti-clericalism
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or opposition to what he saw as the hypocrisy
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and corruption of the American churches.
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The Protestant clergy was one of his greatest targets.
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And make no mistake, folks,
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Frederick Douglass began his career as an intellectual,
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as an orator, and as a writer, as a Garrisonian.
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It was William Lloyd Garrison who, in part,