 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1894 - 478 lehte
...Garrison began the publication 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1894 - 610 lehte
...Garrison began the publication 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... | |
 | Elisha Benjamin Andrews - 1894 - 384 lehte
...colonizationists. " I am in earnest," said the plucky man, when his utterances threatened to cost him his life, " 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 were startling tones. Had God turned a new prophet... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1894 - 480 lehte
...Lee surrendered his sword at Appomattox. Garrison wrote in the very first issue of the " Liberator:" "I am in earnest. I will not equivocate. I will not excuse. I will not retreat a single inch ; and I will be heard." Such uncompromising determination was not only the making... | |
 | Samuel Thomas Pickard - 1894 - 440 lehte
...Garrison began the publication 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... | |
 | Elisha Benjamin Andrews - 1894 - 386 lehte
...colonizationists. " I am in earnest," said the plucky man, when his utterances threatened to cost him his life, " 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 were startling tones. Had God turned a new prophet... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1894 - 530 lehte
...rang out once more, clear and unmistakable, awaking at last the reluctant echoes of the continent, " I am in earnest ; I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard." There were other voices, indeed, voices everywhere, harmonious... | |
 | 1895 - 592 lehte
...uncompromising as justice. On 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 «till be heard." Naturally, he became the object of the greatest possible... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1895 - 940 lehte
...uncompromising as justice ; on 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... | |
 | 1895 - 220 lehte
...portrait statues in the city. On one side of the pedestal is cut Garrison's daring 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." And on the other side: " My country is the world; my countrymen... | |
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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. 
