This was originally posted in April, 2011 on http://beccafrench.tumblr.com/post/4298250320/urge-me-not-to-yse-moderation.
From “For Immediate Abolition” by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831, addressing slavery.
“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not a cause for severity? I will be as harsh as the truth and as uncompromising as justice. 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. I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch AND I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and to hasten the resurrection of the dead.”
Urge me not to use moderation when speaking of the murder of 115,000 children a day.
Urge me not to use moderation when speaking of the devastation of 115,000 mothers’ and families’ lives a day.
Urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.
Abortion ended another 115,000 innocent lives today, and devastated even more. Will you be a voice?
(Cite: Biblical Worldview Rhetoric I, by Shauna K. Howat)
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