John Woolman Quotes

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While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for...

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is...

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appet...

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I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend ...

John Woolman

Merchant

Born: 1720-10-19

Died: 1772-10-07

John Woolman (1720–1772) was a North American merchant, tailor, journalist and itinerant Quaker preacher, and an early abolitionist in the colonial era. He traveled through frontier areas of British North America to preach Quaker beliefs, and advocate against slavery and the slave trade, cruelty to animals, economic injustices and oppression, and conscription. Woolman published numerous essays, and kept a journal throughout his life, The Journal of John Woolman (1774), considered a prominent American spiritual work.More