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John Brown

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!
JOHN BROWN

Coward Forever Myself Word
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

Blood Certain Guilty Land Myself Quite
Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.
JOHN BROWN

Empty Raise Smile White Writing
These men are all talk; What is needed is action – action!
JOHN BROWN

Action Man Need Talk
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

Color Myself People Poor Powerful Respect Right Understand Weakness Wealth
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.
JOHN BROWN

Craft Dignity Honesty Lying Mild Mindset Ourselves
The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.
JOHN BROWN

Earth Eyes Heaven
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
JOHN BROWN

Compassionate Creature Live Suffering Treat
So far as I ever observed God’s dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.
JOHN BROWN

Deal Entertainment God Observation Scripture Soul Way Weird
Symptoms are the body’s mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.
JOHN BROWN

Body Foreign Language Mom Sign
The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.
JOHN BROWN

Government Man Place Rule State Woman
The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.
JOHN BROWN

Angel Government Spirit
I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.
JOHN BROWN

Capital Defeat Determination Feeling Lost Moments Myself Possible Quite Recovery
I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.
JOHN BROWN

Myself Purpose Worth
I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.
JOHN BROWN

Ethics Myself Question Respect
Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!
JOHN BROWN

Destruction God Life Presence Slave Time

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