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title: "32 John brown Quotes by 25 authors"
description: "Browse 32 John brown quotes by 25 authors. Discover the best John brown sayings and thoughts."
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> [Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/did-john-brown-fail-john-brown-began-the-war-that-ended-american/)

[Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-douglass/)

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> [John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sergeant-wise/john-brown-was-tried-for-treason-murder-and-inciting-slaves-to/)

[John Sergeant Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sergeant-wise/)

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> [John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-haven-putnam/john-brown-s-effort-was-peculiar-it-was-not-a-slave-insurrection/)

[George Haven Putnam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-haven-putnam/)

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> [“People who never did a heroic deed themselves are very particular as to how heroes behave...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-brown/people-who-never-did-a-heroic-deed-themselves-are-very-particular-as/)

[Annie Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-brown/)

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> [The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sergeant-wise/the-attack-of-john-brown-upon-harper-s-ferry-came-upon-virginia-like/)

[John Sergeant Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sergeant-wise/)

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> [I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-john-brown-am-now-quite-certain-that-the-crimes-of-this-guilty-land/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/if-not-for-the-direct-action-of-a-john-brown-and-his-comrades-america/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

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> [Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ogden-nash/beneath-this-slab-john-brown-is-stowed-he-watched-the-ads-and-not-the/)

[Ogden Nash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ogden-nash/)

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> [It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/it-was-frederick-douglass-john-brown-harriet-tubman-wendell-phillips/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

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> [ \[On John Brown:\] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/on-john-brown-the-poor-wretch-is-hanged-but-from-his-grave-a-root-of/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

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> [John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-banks/john-brown-first-swam-into-my-vision-in-the-1960s-when-i-was-a/)

[Russell Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-banks/)

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> [ “He is a strange, resolute, repulsive, iron-willed, inexorable old man, \[possessing\] a firey nature and a cold temper, and a cooler head--a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-phillips/he-is-a-strange-resolute-repulsive-iron-willed-inexorable-old-man/)

[William A. Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-a-phillips/)

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> [Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/show-me-a-man-who-feels-bitterly-toward-john-brown-and-let-me-hear/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way, All the heroes of tomorrow, Are the heretics of today.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yip-harburg/lives-of-great-men-all-remind-us-greatness-takes-no-easy-way-all-the/)

[Yip Harburg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yip-harburg/)

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> [James McBride's 'The Good Lord Bird' is set in the mid-19th century and is based on the real life of John Brown,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/justin-cartwright/james-mcbride-s-the-good-lord-bird-is-set-in-the-mid-19th-century-and/)

[Justin Cartwright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/justin-cartwright/)

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> [Strangely enough, the legend of John Brown, who was clearly crazy, helped the abolitionist cause and is thought to have precipitated the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/justin-cartwright/strangely-enough-the-legend-of-john-brown-who-was-clearly-crazy/)

[Justin Cartwright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/justin-cartwright/)

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> [This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/this-will-be-a-great-day-in-our-history-the-date-of-a-new-revolution/)

[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/)

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> [One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/one-of-the-songs-that-stayed-in-my-head-that-i-really-considered-a/)

[Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/)

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> [Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/life-is-legal-tender-and-individual-character-stamps-its-value-we-are/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

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> [If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dick-gregory/if-i-had-to-write-down-the-most-important-people-in-the-history-of/)

[Dick Gregory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dick-gregory/)

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> [John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/john-brown-s-zeal-in-the-cause-of-freedom-was-infinitely-superior-to-2/)

[Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-douglass/)

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> [ As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic \[slave rebellions in the South\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eustace-mullins/as-day-and-other-observers-had-reported-the-slaves-were-leading-very/)

[Eustace Mullins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eustace-mullins/)

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> [“lived in the family of a Mr. Brown, the father of John Brown—"whose body lies mouldering in the grave, while his soul…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulysses-s-grant/lived-in-the-family-of-a-mr-brown-the-father-of-john-brown-whose-body/)

[Ulysses S. Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulysses-s-grant/)

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> [“If we had learned anything over the last decade, it was that there was no other way to defeat slavery, except with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-banks/if-we-had-learned-anything-over-the-last-decade-it-was-that-there-was/)

[Russell Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-banks/)

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> [It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-catton/it-began-with-one-act-of-madness-and-it-ended-with-another-john-brown/)

[Bruce Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-catton/)

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> [Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/of-all-the-men-who-were-said-to-be-my-contemporaries-it-seemed-to-me/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lloyd-garrison/in-firing-his-gun-john-brown-has-merely-told-what-time-of-day-it-is/)

[William Lloyd Garrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lloyd-garrison/)

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> [“On Ho Chi Minh's desk in Hanoi on the day he died lay a biography of John Brown.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/on-ho-chi-minh-s-desk-in-hanoi-on-the-day-he-died-lay-a-biography-of/)

[James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/)

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> [ \[John Brown's\] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/john-brown-s-zeal-in-the-cause-of-freedom-was-infinitely-superior-to/)

[Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-douglass/)

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> [John Brown was one of my longtime heroes, and it was with no little amount of temerity that I accepted the role.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sterling-hayden/john-brown-was-one-of-my-longtime-heroes-and-it-was-with-no-little/)

[Sterling Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sterling-hayden/)

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> [We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-landgraf/we-ve-actually-bought-quite-a-number-of-historical-pieces-we-are/)

[John Landgraf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-landgraf/)

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> [The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-banks/the-60s-passed-and-faded-and-i-grew-older-and-in-1987-bought-a-house/)

[Russell Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-banks/)

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