 | Orison Swett Marden - 1894 - Broj stranica: 480
...first issue : " 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." What audacity for a young man, with the world against him ! Hon. Robert Y. Hayne,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1894 - Broj stranica: 610
...of the " Liberator," in Boston. He uttered his memorable ultimatum : " I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard." Whittier counted the cost with Quaker coolness of judgment before taking a step... | |
 | 1895 - Broj stranica: 592
...subject I do not wish to think, or 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 «till be heard." Naturally, he became the object of the greatest possible degree of scorn and... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1895 - Broj stranica: 940
...this subject I do not wish to think or 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." These words of William Lloyd Garrison express with perfect exactness the spirit... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - Broj stranica: 852
...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,... | |
 | Robert Fanuzzi - 2003 - Broj stranica: 388
...prefigured the contested course for the abolition movement under the rubric of Garrisonism. "I will not equivocate— I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch," he promised, and like all previous and subsequent selfdeclarations, this one constituted not just an... | |
 | Elizabeth C. Stevens - 2003 - Broj stranica: 352
...hung on the Chace parlor wall with his stirring words printed underneath: "I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard."15 As a child of "not more than six years old," Lillie Chace remembered her mother... | |
 | Annetta Louise Gomez-Jefferson - 2002 - Broj stranica: 356
...black Garrisonian journalist who will make good this solemn declaration: "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 election of general officers was interrupted on several occasions by... | |
 | Philip Wolny - 2004 - Broj stranica: 68
...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,... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - Broj stranica: 572
...the courage to stand against the majority of his countrymen and declare: I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and / will be heard. For these stirring words, perhaps his most memorable utterance ever, 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. 
