“I went to take Brown — and he took me.”
Much later, Robert E. Lee and others might have said:
“We hanged Brown, but he hanged us.”
His zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as taper as light, his was as burning as the burning sun. Mine was bounded by time. His stretched to the silent shores of eternity. I could speak for the slave. He could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. He could die for the slave.- Frederick Douglass