I can still recite the Scout Oath ("On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty... ......), and the 12 points of the Scout Law ("A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful... ......); but I equivocate, because when I was a scout the abstractions of "values and ideals" mattered less to me than simply getting out of the house and away from the folks.
I'm not sure why I equivocate here, and right away I can see he was hoping I'd know more details.
In the first issue of The Liberator he stated his views on slavery vehemently: "I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.… 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 band closes "A More Perfect Union," from its latest album, "The Monitor" (XL), by quoting the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison: "I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard".
I even equivocated on the issue that managed to unite my entire generation, the Iraq war.
"I will not equivocate; I will not excuse;" I will use the severest language I can command; and yet not one word shall escape me that any man, whose judgment is not blinded by prejudice, or who is not at heart a slaveholder, shall not confess to be right and just.
I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD".
In a way, I would equivocate my high school team as my "National Team". Here, for a season out of each year, girls from different clubs and different part of Charlotte put on the same uniform to fight for the same goal: a state championship.
Not because I would equivocate in condemning the violence that was unleashed in support of their views.
When I am in love I don't equivocate, nor do I waver". .
