John Brown Quotes About Slaves

• I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done...in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done!

  John Brown

  País, Niños, Creer

  Speech at trial for treason and insurrection, Charlestown, Va., 2 Nov. 1859 See Bible 333

• Aquí, ante Dios, en presencia de estos testigos, desde este momento, ¡consagro mi vida a la destrucción de la esclavitud!

  John Brown

  Life, God, Dedication

• 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.

  John Brown

  Powerful, Rights, Ideas

• 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.

  John Brown

  Pensamiento, Luz, Gente

  John Brown (1910). “The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia”

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