I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never b… - John Brown
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never b…
- John Brown
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature. - John Brown
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do … - John Brown
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do …
I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that … - John Brown
I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that …
I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to othe… - John Brown
I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to othe…
I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day. - John Brown
I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.
Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery! - John Brown
Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one … - John Brown
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one …
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