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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.
Source: Editorial, 1 Jan. 1831, launching the newspaper, The Liberator, in his antislavery campaign.
-- William Lloyd Garrison, (Dec 10 1805-1879), US journalist, abolitionist; He was a crusader who published a newspaper, The Liberator, 1831-65, and helped lead the successful Abolitionist campaign against slavery.