John Brown Quotes
12 quotes by 9 authors
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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 the burning sun.…
— Frederick Douglass
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In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.
— William Lloyd Garrison
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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] failed, it became…
— Eustace Mullins
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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 old one. Even…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
— John Sergeant Wise
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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 black man.
— Emma Goldman
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Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.
— Frederick Douglass
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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.
— John Mason Brown
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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 the anti-war movement…
— Russell Banks
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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 out that John…
— Russell Banks
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Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.
— Ogden Nash
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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.
— John Sergeant Wise
Who Wrote These John Brown Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 12 John Brown Quotes as follows: