Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.

You have to take power. No one gives it.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.