Occupation: Journalist Birth: December 12, 1805 Death: May 24, 1879
There is no safety where there is no strength; no strength without Union; no Union without justice; no justice where faith and truth are wanting. The….
My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil, I….
Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion..
Everyone should be treated fairly no matter what they look like..
I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt..
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!.
That which is not just is not law..
It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove tha….
Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe….
What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain that the only i….
In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon..
No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man..
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single ….
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainl….
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril..
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?.
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to ….
There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience..
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell..
Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, a….
Liberty for each, for all, and forever!.