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«I will be as harsh as truth, and 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.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
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«With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
arguments, humane, No Quarter, plead, pleaded, pleading, pleads, quarter, reasonable, Reasonable man, tyrants
«I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has 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.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
alarm, babe, Cause for Alarm, earnest, equivocate, extricate, extricated, gradually, harsh, inch, in earnest, moderate, moderately, on fire, ravisher, rescue, rescues, rescuing, retreat, uncompromising, urge, with moderation
«That which is not just is not law.»
«Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
complexions, inherent
«Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
enslave, liberties, peril, put in
«You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.»
«Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
convertible, dependant, popular opinion, right and wrong
«Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
assail, assailed, assailing, assails, boldness, discernment, impeach, impeached, notoriously, practices, rebuke, rebukes, rebuking
«I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch- and I will be heard!»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
earnest, equivocate, inch, in earnest, retreat
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