 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1875 - Broj stranica: 408
...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,... | |
 | Edwin David Sanborn - 1875 - Broj stranica: 452
...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... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - Broj stranica: 534
...; — but urge not me to use moderation in a case 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. " It is pretended that I am retarding the cause of emancipation by the coarseness... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - Broj stranica: 630
...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 - 1877 - Broj stranica: 396
...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,... | |
 | 1905 - Broj stranica: 1152
...No. i WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Born December 10, 1805; Died May 24, 1879 I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — and I will be heard. — Garrison. EW men as great in moral character and philanthropic achievement... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - 1878 - Broj stranica: 582
...severity ? (I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. I am in earnest,— I will net equivocate, — I will not excuse,— I will not retreat a single inch, AND I WILL BE HEARD.) " It is pretended that I am retarding the cause of emancipation by the coarseness... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1879 - Broj stranica: 422
...proclamation. Thus wondrously did he fulfill his own prophetic announcement : "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 his youth, Garrison was a pronounced politician of the Newburyport whig,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1879 - Broj stranica: 72
...written there? You have heard them already : you know them by heart: " I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEAKD ! " Take the circumstances and conditions of the time in which they were uttered,... | |
 | Oliver Johnson - 1879 - Broj stranica: 458
...be," he 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... | |
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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. 
