 | Rossiter Johnson - 1888 - 580 страници
...immediate abolition. His first words in the cause have become famous : " I am in earnest. I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch ; and I will be heard." Other publications of this character were established within a few years, at... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1888 - 452 страници
...country is the world, my countrymen are all mankind,' and declaring, ' I am in earnest. I will not equivocate. I will not excuse. I will not retreat a single inch. I will be heard." "The agitation of the abolition of slavery, which was to end only with emancipation,... | |
 | 1890 - 896 страници
...memorable as e'mbodying the whole purpose and spirit of his life : — " I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — and I will be heard." Help came but slowly. Pur many months Mr Garrison and his brave partner,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 288 страници
...in 1830, " 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...men of education and social standing, like Wendell Phillips (1811-84) and Charles Summer (1811-74), joined themselves to the cause. Both of these were... | |
 | Archibald Henry Grimké - 1891 - 430 страници
...fallen— but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD." Martin Luther's " Here I take my stand," was not braver or grander than the... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1891 - 330 страници
...Anti-Slavery movement. When he started the paper The Lilerator, he wrote, " I am in earnest ; I will not equivocate ; I will not excuse ; I will not retreat a single inch ; and I will be heard." And he was heard, as the thousands of emancipated slaves of America can testify.... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1891 - 516 страници
...public in the first number of the Liberator he used these words : " I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — and / will te heard" See Life of WL Garrison, by his Children. we should say to the South was this... | |
 | Lewis Ford - 1892 - 252 страници
...justice. On this subject I do not wish to speak or write with moderation. I am in earnest. I will not equivocate. I will not excuse. I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard."—Motto Garrison's Liberator. troubles, were invited by the United States Government... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1892 - 214 страници
...fallen — but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — and I will be heard !" This promise was amply kept. Some of Garrison's best friends, and of the... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 526 страници
.... 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." ' In one of the succeeding issues he said : " Everybody is opposed to slavery,... | |
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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. 
