 | William Mathews - 1874 - 386 頁
...William Lloyd Garrison commenced 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.... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1874 - 524 頁
...not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest ; I will not equivocate ; Iivill not excuse ; I will not retreat an inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD ! The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal, and to hasten the... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - 1875 - 388 頁
...criticism is in this paragraph, which follows a partial quotation of Garrison's famous declaration, that " I am in earnest, — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD." " Ion " wrote — " This is a defence which has been generally... | |
 | Edwin David Sanborn - 1875 - 452 頁
...published in the Genius of 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... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1875 - 622 頁
...contrary, as soon as he got out of jail, he went to editing that paper of his, with this flaming motto: "/am in earnest. I will not equivocate, I will not excuse. I will not retreat a sinale inch, and I will be heard. Everybody knew he was a fanatic, but the trouble with fanatics... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 538 頁
...but is there not cause for 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 retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.' This humble printer, so speaking after the first taste of persecution,... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1888 - 440 頁
...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... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 630 頁
...there not cause for 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,... | |
 | 1905 - 1152 頁
...MONTHLY VOL. XXVIII JANUARY 1906 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... | |
 | 1879 - 422 頁
...free by presidential 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... | |
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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. 
