 | Edwin David Sanborn - New Hampshire - 1875 - 452 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... | |
 | 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, headed by a slave named... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | William H. Bowen - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 448 pages
...in response to a public caution against severity and a warning against the results of rashness : " I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. I will not extenuate ; I will not excuse ; I will not retreat a single inch ; and I will be heard." That... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 538 pages
...the apostle of the deepest and broadest cause of our century, said those immortal words. ' I am aware that many object to the severity of my language ;...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 - Authors, English - 1877 - 526 pages
...the apostle of the deepest and broadest cause of our century, said those immortal words. ' I am aware that many object to the severity of my language ;...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... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Great Britain - 1877 - 548 pages
...not be forgotten while the Anglo-Saxon liberties and language last. ' I am aware,' says Garrison, ' that many object to the severity of my language ;...and as uncompromising as justice. I am in earnest — 1 will not equivocate — AND I WILL BE HKAED. The apathy of the people is enough to make every... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 630 pages
...I am nware that many object to the severity of my language ; but ia there not cause for severity 1 I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising...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 - Authors, English - 1877 - 546 pages
...the apostle of the deepest and broadest cause of our century, said those immortal words. ' I am aware that many object to the severity of my language ;...I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising asjustice. I am in earnest— I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single... | |
 | 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,... | |
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I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation . . . urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. 
