...what we need is action - action!

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

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

...what we need is action - action!

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.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

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.