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 am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD".
The word from informed sources in Quai d'Orsay, the American Embassy, & the Hotel Crillon is that de Gaulle will not retreat a single inch.
Abraham Lincoln drew Steven Spielberg's cinematic attention, but Lincoln was still a store clerk when William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of the newspaper The Liberator in 1831, vowing to "not retreat a single inch" in his campaign to eradicate slavery.
"They want it because that's how they would like to run, or is it to ruin, this country". Even on Europe, she did not retreat a single inch.
In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions.
If you don't have a single inch of dirt or patio space in your 7th story apartment, don't give up.
"We don't covet a single inch of your land, we have no demands of you, except to strictly preserve security along our common border".
"We will not give you a single inch, and our dead are in heaven and your dead are in hell," the distraught Isis commander is heard saying over the radio.
My only economic journal publication was called Remuneration and Risk, and it was about bankers' bonuses and how they created perverse incentives which were more or less bound to end in a crisis (this was 13 years ago, it was not a very original paper at the time, and I am strangely proud to see that the literature has not moved on a single inch from then to now).
