 | John White Chadwick - Sermons, American - 1889 - 240 pages
...and the will of France ! What birthdays of the spirit yet again were those when Garrison declared, " I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice, I will not retract, I will not equivocate, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard "... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 pages
...throughout our land. WASHINGTON IRVING. 1783-1859. A VOW, IJT "THE LIBERATOR," VOL. L, NO. 1. 1831. I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. 1805-79. V2E VICTIS ! US SENATE, JANUARY, 1832. To the victors belong the spoils... | |
 | United States - 1903 - 696 pages
...that the following immortal words of Garrison sounded one of the first peals in the knell of slavery : "Many object to the severity of my language, but is there not cause for such severity? I will be harsh as truth and uncompromising as justice. I am in earnest. I will not... | |
 | Archibald Henry Grimké - Abolitionists - 1891 - 430 pages
...timidity, injustice, and absurdity." To those who find fault with his harsh language he makes reply : " 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... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - Abolitionists - 1891 - 508 pages
...publication of the Liberator, advocating the immediate abolition of slavery ; and with the sublime pledge, " I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to speak or write with moderation. I will not equivocate ; I will not excuse ; I will not retreat a... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - Literary Collections - 1891 - 296 pages
...irrepressible conflict " Massachusetts led the van. Garrison had 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... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1892 - 214 pages
...civil war. The salutatory of the Liberator avowed that its editor meant to speak out without restraint. "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... | |
 | Maria S. Porter - Authors, American - 1893 - 86 pages
...public in the Liberator he wrote, in words that have often been quoted and should never be forgotten : " I am aware that many object to the severity of my...uncompromising as justice ! On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write with moderation. No ! no ! urge me not to use moderation in a cause like... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Gordy, Willis Ira Twitchell - United States - 1893 - 428 pages
...to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union. — Rufus Choate. I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. — Wm. Lloyd Garrison. Cotton is King; or, Slavery in the Light of Political Economy.- — David Christy.... | |
 | Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association - 1893 - 460 pages
...the world, the pillars of Church, state and society have always been conspicuous chiefly in that.) " I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice," said William Lloyd Garrison. Thomas Dudley belonged to that sturdy, robust, middle class of English... | |
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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 speak, or write, with moderation. 
