"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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