 | Luther Tracy Townsend - 1881 - 272 pàgines
...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 - 1881 - 526 pàgines
...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 - 1882 - 640 pàgines
...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 - 1865 - 324 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Mathews - 1883 - 398 pàgines
...; but he conquered recognition at last, and it was the very struggle with a world reluctant to hoar him that gave him power and renown. When William Lloyd...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... | |
 | Parker Pillsbury - 1883 - 520 pàgines
...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 - 1883 - 236 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1884 - 990 pàgines
...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 firmer than his own, because more steadfast,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1884 - 452 pàgines
...slave." For this the editor proclaimed, " 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." He stood like Luther when he had nailed Ms theses to the church door in Wittenberg.... | |
 | 1884 - 750 pàgines
...reason, and rally all that I know or dream or fear, to abide by this central and necessary resolution ? " I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard," said the brave but persistent William Lloyd Garrison ; and with less Firmness... | |
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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. 
