"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 baby from the
fire into which it
has fallen – but
urge me not to
use moderation in
a cause like the
present." – William
Lloyd Garrison on
slavery from the
Liberator, 1831
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