 | William Mathews - Success - 1874 - 386 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 / will be heard." He has been heard, — with what result the country knows. It has been said... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin, Jane Dunbar Chaplin - Legislators - 1874 - 562 pages
...the fire into which it has 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 an inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD ! The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its... | |
 | Edwin David Sanborn - New Hampshire - 1875 - 448 pages
...published in the Genius of Universal Emancipation at Baltimore, in 1829." In closing he writes : " I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — and I WILL BE HEARD." These declarations then seemed absurd, egotistical and fool-hardy ; but in... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Politicians - 1875 - 388 pages
...criticism is in this paragraph, which follows a partial quotation of Garrison's famous declaration, that " I am in earnest, — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD." " Ion " wrote — " This is a defence which has been generally accepted this... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - United States - 1875 - 622 pages
...contrary, as soon as he got out of jail, he went to editing that paper of his, with this flaming motto: "/am in earnest. I will not equivocate, I will not excuse. I will not retreat a sinale inch, and I will be heard. Everybody knew he was a fanatic, but the trouble with fanatics is,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Indians of North America - 1875 - 408 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 - Authors, English - 1877 - 538 pages
...but is there not cause for severity ? 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.' This humble printer, so speaking after the first taste of persecution, a... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1888 - 440 pages
...Liberator, taking for his motto, ' My 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,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Authors, English - 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... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - America - 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,... | |
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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. 
