John Brown according to Frederick Douglas
John Brown according to Frederick Douglas
“His zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine - it was as the burning sun to my taper light - mine was bounded by time, his stretched away to the boundless shores of eternity. I could live for the slave, but he could die for him.”
- Frederick Douglass, 30 May 1881
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"Brown, a white man who hated slavery so much that even his friend, the famed abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass, wished Brown would shut up about it every now and then." - Sarah Vowell
Full respect for John Brown. He knew how to give it his all.
No more half measures, Walter
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.
