 | Luther Tracy Townsend - 1881 - 272 pages
...Garrison. Conant's portrait of Garrison has this characteristic extract from one of his speeches : "I am in earnest! I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — and I will be heard !" » Sacred eloquence likewise abounds in examples of this kind of courage.... | |
 | George Washington Williams - 1882 - 640 pages
...moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher ; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen ;...will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEAED. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal,... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...Christian Examiner, at Boston, issued the first number of the " Liberator," making the declaration — " I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and Iivill be Jieard." He borrowed the type and press of the office he worked in. He could not get... | |
 | Parker Pillsbury - 1883 - 520 pages
...hands of the ravisher ; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which-it has fallen ; but urge me not to use moderation in...will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. And I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal,... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1883 - 236 pages
...and sting. His programme was this : " I will be as harsh as truth, as 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." I remember once hearing that when George Bradburn was told that he ought not... | |
 | William Mathews - 1883 - 398 pages
...William Lloyd Garrison commenced the publication of the Liberator, he began with these memorable words, " I am in earnest, — I will not equivocate, — I...not excuse, — I will not retreat a single inch, — and / mil be heard." He has been heard, — with what result the country knows. It has been said... | |
 | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - 1884 - 760 pages
...register a man's name. But like that great reformer who said : " I will be as 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," she held to her purpose with dogged tenacity. After months of wearying delay,... | |
 | 1884 - 756 pages
...register a man's name. But like that great reformer who said : " I will be as 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," she held to her purpose with dogged tenacity. After months of wearying delay,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1884 - 452 pages
...slave." For this the editor proclaimed, " I will be as harsh as truth, and as 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." He stood like Luther when he had nailed Ms theses to the church door in Wittenberg.... | |
 | 1891 - 866 pages
...those Joy Street Church. Maria Weston Chapman. FROM A DAGt'ERROTVPE, ABOIT 1847. immortal words : " I am in earnest ; I will not equivocate : I will not excuse ; I will not retreat a single inch ; and I win. BE HEARIi." Next in point of time and perhaps importance is the building where was formed... | |
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I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch— AND I WILL BE HEARD. 
