 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1886 - 504 pages
...appearance (January 1, 1831) 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,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 pages
...written in his Liberator, 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 - 332 pages
...to suit the purpose of one " too 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... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1887 - 718 pages
...is there not cause for such severity? 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 retract a single inch, and / will be heard." The first numbers were printed for him and paid for by... | |
 | William Parsons Atkinson - 1888 - 74 pages
...lay in those memorable 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... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1888 - 452 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,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1888 - 574 pages
...slavery, and to demand its immediate abolition. His first words in the cause have become famous : " I am in earnest. I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch ; and I will be heard." Other publications of this character were established within a few years, at... | |
 | William C. King - 2003 - 660 pages
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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. 
