The top 10 most inspiring quotes by John Brown
- Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!
- 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 without very much bloodshed it might be done.
- These men are all talk; What is needed is action – action!
- 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 be unmindful of your own dignity.
- I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.
- 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 other than moral persuasion.
- Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!
- Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends…every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.
- Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.
John Brown was an American abolitionist whose fervent belief in the righteousness of his cause led him to extreme measures. Born in 1800, he became convinced of the need to eradicate slavery after witnessing its horrors. Brown gained notoriety for his involvement in the Pottawatomie massacre in 1856, where he and his followers killed five pro-slavery settlers in Kansas.
However, his most famous action was the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, an attempt to start a slave rebellion. The raid failed, and Brown was captured, tried, and executed for treason against the state of Virginia.
While his methods were controversial and his actions ultimately unsuccessful in their immediate goals, Brown’s uncompromising stance against slavery helped galvanize the abolitionist movement and contributed to the tensions that led to the American Civil War. He remains a polarizing figure in American history, revered by some as a martyr for the cause of freedom and condemned by others as a fanatic and terrorist.
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