Abolitionist Quote by John Brown Download Open image ““These men are all talk. What we need is action—action!”” — John Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abolitionist
“Today’s man should do more than just talk; he should act. He should do more than just promise; he should deliver.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“These are the only important men, the doers. And here in Germany a doer has risen. A vital man is changing things. The whole… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“Men who are capable of real action first make their plans and then go forward without hesitation while their enemies have still not made… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“Failing to act is action, and though there are a lot of people talking, they are not taking action.” — James Jackson Copy Share Image
“Every man of action is basically cheerful and optimistic, because those who don’t feel are happy. You can spot a man of action by… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“There is one thing...which a man can always do, if he chuses[sic], and that is, his duty.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion… — John Brown Copy Share Image
When I strike, the bees will begin to swarm, and I want you to help hive them. — John Brown Copy Share Image
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But… — John Brown Copy Share Image
If it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further… — John Brown Copy Share Image
I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I am worth… — John Brown Copy Share Image
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice! — John Brown Copy Share Image
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… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills. — John Brown Copy Share Image
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present… — John Brown Copy Share Image
I dont think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument… — John Brown Copy Share Image
No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other,… — Samuel Gridley Howe Copy Share Image
“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
“That was when I realized we weren’t born to be slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be the master… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail. — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' -… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years… — Ernest Gowers Copy Share Image
There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the model of… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
