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John Brown byl americký radikální abolicionista a křesťan, který věřil, že ozbrojené povstání je jedinou cestu k ukončení otrokářství ve Spojených státech. Patří k rozporuplným postavám amerických dějin. Abraham Lincoln o něm napsal, že je to nebezpečný fanatik, dodnes o něm někteří historici tvrdí, že byl jedním z otců terorismu, zatímco jiní ho obdivují jako „nejstatečnějšího a nejhumánnějšího člověka v zemi" a „člověka výjimečného, který si cenil svých ideálů více než vlastního života."Proslavil se především svým neúspěšným útokem na federální zbrojnici 16. října 1859 v Harpers Ferry ve Virginii . Jeho cílem bylo vyzbrojit uprchlé otroky a vyvolat povstání proti otrokářům.Historikové se shodují, že hrál významnou roli v událostech vedoucích k Americké občanské válce. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. květen 1800 – 2. prosinec 1859
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„Rád bych, abyste pochopili, že práva těch nejchudších a nejslabších lidí tmavé pleti uvrhnutých otrokáři do poroby ctím v téže míře jako práva těch nejbohatších a nejmocnějších.“

Zdroj: Thoreau, Henry David, Občanská neposlušnost: a jiné eseje, Paseka, Praha - Litomyšl, 2014, 176, 98, 978-80-7432-340-9

„Neuznávám žádného vládce v lidské podobě.“

Zdroj: [Thoreau, Henry David, Občanská neposlušnost: a jiné eseje, Paseka, Praha - Litomyšl, 2014, 176, 98, 978-80-7432-340-9]

John Brown: Citáty anglicky

“The marriage relation shall be at all times respected”

Article XLII.
Provisional Constitution and Ordinances (1858)
Kontext: The marriage relation shall be at all times respected, and families kept together, as far as possible; and broken families encouraged to reunite, and intelligence offices established for that purpose. Schools and churches established, as soon as may be, for the purpose of reli­gious and other instructions; for the first day of the week, regarded as a day of rest, and appropriated to moral and religious instruction and improvement, relief of the suffering, instruction of the young and ignorant, and the encouragement of personal cleanliness; nor shall any persons be required on that day to perform ordinary manual labor, unless in extremely urgent cases.

“I bring you one of the best and bravest persons on this continent — General Tubman as we call her.”

Introducing Harriet Tubman to Wendell Phillips, as quoted in The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom (1898) by Wilbur Henry Siebert, p. 185 also in "The Underground Railway" (27 May 1902) by W. H. Withrow, as published in Proceedings

“This is a beautiful country.”

Last words (2 December 1859), as quoted in John Brown and his Men https://books.google.com/books?id=uiaYWp66b-cC&pg=PR1&dq=John+Brown+and+his+Men+%281894%29+by+Richard+Josiah+Hinton&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Uub_VN3CN5HbggTdxIK4Cw&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=John%20Brown%20and%20his%20Men%20(1894)%20by%20Richard%20Josiah%20Hinton&f=false (1894) by Richard Josiah Hinton, p. 397.

“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can 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.”

This was written on a note that he had at his execution (2 December 1859), most sources say it was handed to the guard, but some dispute that and claim it was handed to a reporter accompaning him; as quoted in John Brown and his Men https://books.google.com/books?id=uiaYWp66b-cC&pg=PR1&dq=John+Brown+and+his+Men+%281894%29+by+Richard+Josiah+Hinton&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Uub_VN3CN5HbggTdxIK4Cw&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=John%20Brown%20and%20his%20Men%20(1894)%20by%20Richard%20Josiah%20Hinton&f=false (1894) by Richard Josiah Hinton, p. 398.

“I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, — being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.”

Letter to his brother Jeremiah https://archive.org/stream/lifeandlettersof00sanbrich/lifeandlettersof00sanbrich_djvu.txt (12 November 1859).

“These men are all talk; What is needed is action”

action!
Remarks at the New England Anti-Slavery Convention (May 1859), quoted in William Lloyd Garrison by Wendell and Francis Garrison.

“I acknowledge no master in human form.”

As quoted in The life and letters of John Brown, liberator of Kansas, and martyr of Virginia https://archive.org/stream/lifeandlettersof00sanbrich/lifeandlettersof00sanbrich_djvu.txt (1885), by Franklin B. Sanborn, p. 563.
Provisional Constitution and Ordinances (1858), Prison interview (1859)

“Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends, either father, mother, brother, sister, wife, or children, or any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have been all right; and every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment. This court acknowledges, as I suppose, the validity of the law of God. I see a book kissed here which I suppose to be the Bible, or at least the New Testament. That teaches me that all things whatsoever I would that men should do to me, I should do even so to them. It teaches me, further, to "remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them." I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say, I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done as I have always freely admitted 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!”

Provisional Constitution and Ordinances (1858), Speech to the Court (1859)

“Whereas slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States, is none other than the most barbarous, unprovoked and unjustifiable war of one portion of its citizens against another portion, the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment and hopeless servitude, or absolute extermination, in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence.”

Therefore, we, citizens of the United States, and the oppressed people who, by a recent decision of the Supreme' Court, are declared to have no rights which the white man is bound to respect, together with all other people degraded by the laws thereof, do, for the time being, ordain and establish for ourselves the following Provisional Constitution and Ordinances, the better to protect our persons, property, lives, and liberties, and to govern our actions.
Preamble.
Provisional Constitution and Ordinances (1858)

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