 | Essex Institute - Essex County (Mass.) - 1880 - 378 pages
...determined and aggressive. He ' proclaimed that his " country was the world and his countrymen all mankind." "I am in earnest ; I will not equivocate ; I will not excuse ; I will not retract a single inch, and I will be heard." We all know how he pursued his purposes, how he kept his... | |
 | Nathan Crosby - Essex County (Mass.) - 1880 - 42 pages
...determined and aggressive. He proclaimed that his " country was the world and his countrymen all mankind." "I am in earnest ; I will not equivocate ; I will not excuse ; I will not retract a single inch, and I will be heard." We all know how he pursued his purposes, how he kept his... | |
 | Luther Tracy Townsend - Oratory - 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.... | |
 | Oliver Johnson - Abolitionists - 1881 - 526 pages
...unfitted for his work. " I will be," ho 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... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African Americans - 1882 - 640 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 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 - Theology - 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 - Abolitionists - 1883 - 520 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 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 - History - 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 - Conduct of life - 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... | |
 | harper's monthly magazine - 1884 - 992 pages
...both of these, the appearance of the first number of the Liberator in Boston. When Garrison 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," Andrew Jackson for once met a will ILrmer than his own. because more steadfast,... | |
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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. 
