 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 630 pages
...there not cause for severity 1 I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. I ain in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD." This humble printer, so speaking after the first taste of persecution, a... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 534 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 ; — but urge not me to use moderation in a case like the present. I am in earnest, — I will not equivocate, —... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1877 - 396 pages
...abolitionists might be prosecuted in the courts. Mr. Garrison had, however, said, in his paper, " I will not equivocate ; I will not excuse ; I will not retreat a single inch ; and I will be heard." The excitement was much increased by an insurrection that took place in Virginia,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 501 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 ; — but urge not me to use moderation in a ease like the present. I am in earnest, — I will not equivocate, —... | |
 | 1905 - 1156 pages
...MONTHLY VOL. XXVIII JANUARY 1906 No. i WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Born December 10, 1805; Died May 24, 1879 I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — and I will be heard. — Garrison. EW men as great in moral character and philanthropic achievement... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - 1878 - 582 pages
...severity ? (I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. I am in earnest,— I will net equivocate, — I will not excuse,— I will not retreat a single inch, AND I WILL BE HEARD.) " It is pretended that I am retarding the cause of emancipation by the coarseness... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1879 - 424 pages
...free by presidential proclamation. Thus wondrously did he fulfill his own prophetic announcement : "I am in earnest. I will not equivocate. I will not excuse. I will not retreat a single inch ; and I will be heard!" In his youth, Garrison was a pronounced politician of the Newburyport whig,... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1879 - 422 pages
...free by presidential proclamation. Thus wondrously did he fulfill his own prophetic announcement : "I am in earnest. I will not equivocate. I will not excuse. I will not retreat a single inch ; and I will be heard!" In his youth, Garrison was a pronounced politician of the Newburyport whig,... | |
 | Oliver Johnson - 1879 - 458 pages
...unfitted for his work. "I will be," he said, " 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." . . "In attacking the system of slavery, I clearly foresaw all that has happened... | |
 | R. H. Howard, Henry E. Crocker - 1879 - 512 pages
...only of I the great agitator himself, but of the knot of indomitable spirits he gathered about him : " I am in earnest. I will not equivocate ; I will ; not excuse ; I will not retreat a single inch j and / will be heard. " J Few men ever accomplished so much, with means so small, and in J the face... | |
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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. 
