Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“On Ho Chi Minh's desk in Hanoi on the day he died lay a biography of John Brown.” — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky. — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
“People who never did a heroic deed themselves are very particular as to how heroes behave...” — Annie Brown Copy Share Image
John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection. — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
John Brown was one of my longtime heroes, and it was with no little amount of temerity that I accepted the role.… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way, All the heroes of tomorrow, Are the heretics of today.… — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“He is a strange, resolute, repulsive, iron-willed, inexorable old man, [possessing] a firey nature and a cold temper, and a cooler head--a… — William A. Phillips Copy Share Image
Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely… — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown.… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“If we had learned anything over the last decade, it was that there was no other way to defeat slavery, except with… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“lived in the family of a Mr. Brown, the father of John Brown—"whose body lies mouldering in the grave, while his soul… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South]… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
[John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
James McBride's 'The Good Lord Bird' is set in the mid-19th century and is based on the real life of John Brown,… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
![“He is a strange, resolute, repulsive, iron-willed, inexorable old man, [possessing] a firey nature and a cold temper, and a cooler head--a volcano beneath a covering of snow.” quote by William A. Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5e2/william-a-phillips-286792_john-brown_he-is-a-strange-resolute-repulsive-iron_823545.jpg)
![“As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South] failed, it became obvious to the conspirators that an actual military invasion was the only solution to their campaign. The merchant bankers of New England…” quote by Eustace Mullins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8f5/eustace-mullins-25201_bankers_as-day-and-other-observers-had-reported_1140278.jpg)
![“[John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun... I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave.” quote by Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4fd/frederick-douglass-859_brown_john-brown-s-zeal-in-the-cause-of-freedo_2577065.jpg)
![“[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.” quote by Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/20b/fanny-kemble-13000_anger_on-john-brown-the-poor-wretch-is-hanged_1845105.jpg)
