I am here to plead his cause with you. I plead not for his life, but for his character — his immortal life; and so it becomes your cause wholly, and is not his in the least. Some eighteen hundred years ago Christ was crucified; this morning, perchance, Captain Brown was hung. These are the two ends of a chain which is not without its links. He is not Old Brown any longer; he is an angel of light.


A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I am here to plead his cause with you. I plead not for his life, but for his character — his immortal life; and so it becomes your cause wholly,...

I am here to plead his cause with you. I plead not for his life, but for his character — his immortal life; and so it becomes your cause wholly,...

I am here to plead his cause with you. I plead not for his life, but for his character — his immortal life; and so it becomes your cause wholly,...

I am here to plead his cause with you. I plead not for his life, but for his character — his immortal life; and so it becomes your cause wholly,...