Be Harsh With Truth

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.  On this subject [slavery] I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.  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…?  No! No!

William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), cited in “Quotable,” The Berean Call, February 1996