Action Quote by Emma Goldman

“Politically speaking, the murder of John Brown would be an uncorrectable sin. It would create in the Union a latent fissure that would in…

— Victor Hugo

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

— George Haven Putnam

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.

— John Sergeant Wise

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

— Frederick Douglass

Strangely enough, the legend of John Brown, who was clearly crazy, helped the abolitionist cause and is thought to have precipitated the American Civil…

— Justin Cartwright

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

— W. E. B. Du Bois

America isn't made for the black man.

— Ashton Sanders

If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.

— Paul Robeson

“It would take either a full-scale slave rebellion or a full-scale war to end such a deeply entrenched system. If a rebellion, it might…

— Howard Zinn

This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

When black America is on the move, America is on the move.

— Cornel West

This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will enter modern…

— W. E. B. Du Bois