 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 456 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 A. McGowan - History - 2005 - 236 pages
...from 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 1 will be heard! LETTER No. 1 Boston Public Library [Author's Comment: The George Thompson... | |
 | Stanley Harrold - Political Science - 268 pages
...wide audience. The words with which Garrison initiated his weekly newspaper, the Liberator, in 1831 ("I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I...will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.") are among the more famous in American history. High school and college students... | |
 | Scot French - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 400 pages
...not raise a "moderate alarm" but would shout with all the moral force he could muster. "I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch - AND I WILL BE HEARD." Garrison's harsh, uncompromising language, his ringing denunciations of "Southern... | |
 | Joy Hakim - History - 2003 - 438 pages
.... . . but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest — 7 will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD. The next year Garrison helped found the New England Anti-Slavery Society.... | |
 | Ahmad M. Kathrada - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 156 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...inch - and I will be heard. - William Lloyd Garrison, (principle leader of the ''Abolitionists' (of slavery) in N. America. Extract from 'Liberator' (1981),... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Self-Help - 2005 - 461 pages
..." no chance," in the very first issue : " I will be as harsh as truth, as tincomprising 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." What audacity for a young man, with the world against him ! Hon. Robert Y. Hayne,... | |
 | Marshall Cobleigh - Political Science - 2005 - 326 pages
...from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to moderation in any 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." Mel was unique among political leaders in that before reaching a final decision,... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...land: "I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice," his initial editorial screamed. "I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD." With those brave words a new abolitionist movement in America began. That... | |
 | Sean Wilentz - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 1114 pages
...down the East Coast, drumming up support for a new weekly newspaper he planned to publish in Boston.19 "I am in earnest— I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch —AND I WILL BE HEARD." With the now-famous lines of his first editorial, on January 1, 1831, Garrison... | |
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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. 
