How to escape special characters in building a JSON string?

Here is my string

{
    'user': {
        'name': 'abc',
        'fx': {
            'message': {
                'color': 'red'
            },
            'user': {
                'color': 'blue'
            }
        }
    },
    'timestamp': '2013-10-04T08: 10: 41+0100',
    'message': 'I'mABC..',
    'nanotime': '19993363098581330'
}    

Here the message contains single quotation mark, which is same as the quotation used in JSON. What I do is fill up a string from user inputs such as message. So, I need to escape those kind of special scenarios which breaks the code. But other than string replace, is there any way to make them escape but still allow HTML to process them back to the correct message?