 | John Milner Fothergill - 1885 - Broj stranica: 232
...the publication of the Liberator, he began with these memorable words : "I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and / will be heard." He has been heard, with what result the country knows. The free negroes of America,... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1885 - Broj stranica: 442
...justice. On this subject I do not wish to speak or write with moderation. 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 North was bound hand and foot by the slavetrade almost as effectually... | |
 | 1886 - Broj stranica: 588
...Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. Among the inscriptions on the pedestal are these : " I am in earnest ; I will not equivocate ; I will not excuse ; I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard." " My country is the world ; my countrymen are all mankind." The statue was designed... | |
 | Bostonian Society - 1905 - Broj stranica: 168
...editorial of the Liberator, which gave such fright to the slave States : " 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 colored people and many white friends rallied to Garrison's aid, and in... | |
 | Jerome Paine Bates - 1886 - Broj stranica: 882
...his paper called "The Liberator," he began with these memorable words : " I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and / will be heard" And he was heard, and felt, and his paper became a great power for good in the... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1886 - Broj stranica: 504
...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,... | |
 | 1886 - Broj stranica: 454
...unconditional emancipation," and in it he made manifest his purpose : " I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — and I will be heard." Consider a moment what he was undertaking. He was a poor, uneducated lad,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - Broj stranica: 300
...in 1830, "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." But the Garrisonian abolitionists remained for a long time, even in the North,... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - 1887 - Broj stranica: 332
...powerful individual." * * * Remember who it was that said 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!" That speaker has lived twenty-two years, and the complaint of twenty-three... | |
 | William Parsons Atkinson - 1888 - Broj stranica: 74
...words, — they have been fitly engraved on the pedestal of his statue, — "I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard." And such men when they head a great movement are always heard. And with him was... | |
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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. 
