“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!” IfsShouldBelieveChildrenPersonsEndsCountryDoneYoungI BelieveJusticePoorMillionsRightsBloodRight NowSocial JusticeSlaveMy ChildrenWickedSubmitUnjustBehalfDespisedForfeitAbolitionistDisregarded Author:John Brown
“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.” ThinkingWarDoneMightCertainBloodLandCrimeGuiltyCivil WarAmerican Civil WarFlatteredBloodshed Book:The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia Source: The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia