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"These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!"
A thread of John Brown quotes (1/10) https://twitter.com/haymarketbooks/status/1334195113694814209
A thread of John Brown quotes (1/10) https://twitter.com/haymarketbooks/status/1334195113694814209
"Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!"
- John Brown
(2/10)
- John Brown
(2/10)
"Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!"
- John Brown
(3/10)
- John Brown
(3/10)
"The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth."
- John Brown
(4/10)
- John Brown
(4/10)
"I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young."
- John Brown
(5/10)
- John Brown
(5/10)
"The intent and not the deed
Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly
Does greatly."
- John Brown
(6/10)
Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly
Does greatly."
- John Brown
(6/10)
“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.”
- John Brown
(7/10)
- John Brown
(7/10)
"I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause. There will be no peace in this land until slavery is done for."
- John Brown
(8/10)
- John Brown
(8/10)
"Talk, is a national institution, but it does not help the slave."
- John Brown
(9/10)
- John Brown
(9/10)
"if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, & mingle my blood [] with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, & unjust enactments, I submit; so let it be done!"-JB
(10/10)
(10/10)
that last one was from his speech to the court at his trial in 1859, november 2nd. he was executed a month later, december 2nd (today 161 years ago). he pledged to give his life to the cause, and so he did.
