“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is
there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as
uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or
to 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 hands 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.”
― William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist.
― William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist.
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