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 case like the present.
ATTRIBUTION:
William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879), U.S. abolitionist. The Liberator (Jan. 1, 1831).
Editorial; this launched Garrison’s newspaper in his antislavery campaign.
