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 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, The Liberator [January 1, 1831]
Anybody know what he was talking about?
This quote is beautiful to me.
But, then, I was raised by my brother.
FFF is doing their Bio on Garrison today, though they don't have it up on their site yet. These are the articles they link, or will when they post them. You'll have to go there to get the actual links. (I'm mean.)
FREEDOM BIOGRAPHY:
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
William Lloyd Garrison Short Biography
Spartacus Educational
William Lloyd Garrison Short Biography
by Bob Ellenwood
BlountWeb.com
William Lloyd Garrison Short Biography
Online Library of Liberty
The Abolitionist Adventure
by Wendy McElroy
Future of Freedom Foundation
[What the heck, they've already got this one there. McElroy's great.]
The Liberator Inaugural Edition
by William Lloyd Garrison
America's Civil War
On the Death of John Brown
by William Lloyd Garrison
The History Place
On the Constitution and the Union
by William Lloyd Garrison
TeachingAmericanHistory.org
Garrison Bibliography
California State University
25 For Freedom folks need to check out the resources in FFF's Freedom Bios.
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