o7 but also do not self immolate comrades
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I’m doing nothing and I feel bad about it, but I don’t know what to do.
I mean. If this was 1850 I wouldn't tell any abolitionists to burn themselves
His point is that if you doing nothing about terrible things happening now, you would be doing nothing about the terrible things then.
Brown, as with every other man fit to die for a cause, the hour of his physical weakness was the hour of his moral strength - the hour of his defeat was the hour of his triumph - the moment of his capture was the crowning victory of his life. With the Alleghany mountains for his pulpit, the country for his church and the whole civilized world for his audience, he was a thousand times more effective as a preacher than as a warrior, and the consciousness of this fact was the secret of his amazing complacency. Mighty with the sword of steel, he was mightier with the sword of the truth, and with this sword he literally swept the horizon.
Did you write this? Where is this from?
All Americans, since US of America became a country, have been alive during slavery. Slavery was never fully outlawed. Does any American actually read their constitution? Maybe start with the 13th amendment?
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Just recieving reports that while Aaron Bushnell's body is a moulderin in the grave, His truth is marching on.
He didn't deserve the fate that he got, he needed help and compassion from people around him. Self-immolation is never a valid form of protest, it's just suicide.
This is one guy, one single guy, has made a statement as powerful as a protest of thousands. You can say it's suicide, but not that it's meaningless. You can say martyrdom is not something to aspire to, but cannot say that it did not take an incredibly rare level of devotion towards a cause that is just. Writing him off as out of his mind is an insult to his determination. I don't think self-immolating is the most productive thing he could have done, but at the end of the day, if it was, I know I wouldn't have the guts to follow through on it.
He was feeling utterly powerless and thought he was complicit. Also looks like he hated being in the military and was looking to escape which he couldn't do without facing severe consequences
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