"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."

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Source : The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831 (first issue)

William Lloyd Garrison

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