I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to 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 babe 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 resolution prompted sharp debate however by critics — led by his long-time ally Wendell Phillips — who argued that the mission of the AAS was not fully completed until black Southerners gained full political and civil equality. ” After his apprenticeship ended he and a young printer named Isaac Knapp bought their own newspaper the short lived Free Press. In 1853 Garrison credited Reverend John Rankin of Ohio as a primary influence on his career calling him his "anti-slavery father" and saying that Rankin's ".

He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator and was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. William Lloyd Garrison (December 10 1805 – May 24 1879) was a prominent American abolitionist journalist and social reformer. Garrison was also a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement.