How do the ideas in the selection connect to today’s society? Unlike Garrison’s opponents, people today generally support the actions of any person who claims to be “bound, by every principle of honor,” to act in a certain way.
Unlike Garrison’s opponents, people today generally support the actions of any person who claims to be “bound, by every principle of honor,” to act in a certain way.

Unlike Garrison, people today no longer “regard oppression in every form…with indignation and abhorrence,” because there are now laws that protect against oppression.
Unlike Garrison, people today no longer “regard oppression in every form…with indignation and abhorrence,” because there are now laws that protect against oppression.

Like Garrison, people today still measure society by the ideals in “that portion of the Declaration of American Independence” that addresses human equality.
Like Garrison, people today still measure society by the ideals in “that portion of the Declaration of American Independence” that addresses human equality.

Like Garrison’s opponenets, people today still believe that enslaved people “do not possess human instincts, passions, faculties and powers.”