John Brown Quotes
I am worth now infinitely more dead than I am worth alive.
Indeed he was. Relatively unknown before his execution, he became one of the most recognized martyrs and characters of history. Songs about him are even today sung by people who have no idea who he was or what he stood for, but in his death he drew attention to the evils of slavery as few others had.
John Brown, 1800-1859, Abolitionist, Statement after he was convicted for insurrection and sentenced to death, 1859
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During the Cuban Missle Crises, Fidel Castro recommended that the Russians use the nuclear weaponin based in Cuba which would have assured that all Cubans and many Russians would die with the American retaliation.
He was never shot by the people, but executed after a military coup.
This is the basis of the immediate access to paradise that Mullahs promise would be suicide bombers or other fighters in jihad. Lest we think of Islam as more reprehensible than other religions, note that this same type of promise of immediate entry to Heaven was given to Christians who fought for Christianity. See {617185} .
Most Islamic fundamentalists oppose the education of girls. Malala Yousafzai as a teen ager spoke out encouraging girls to go to school. This offended some of the Taliban fundamentalist terrorist, who threatened her if she continued to speak out. When she continued, they tried to murder her. They shot her in the head, but she was airlifted for medical treatment and survived. She was the winner of the European Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought and nominated for the Nobel Prize.
The Muslim Brotherhood Government had just been deposed by a popular coup d’etat carried out by the Egyptian military. The Brotherhood flooded into the streets to protest the coup and some of them attacked police with weapons. The military overreacted and in an effort to clear the demonstrators from the streets killed hundreds of them. This brought out signs like this.
John H. Brown was an American abolitionist leader. Brown felt that violence was necessary to end American slavery, as years of speeches, sermons, petitions, and moral persuasion had failed.
