American slavery Quote by Frederick Douglass

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

“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

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

It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.

— Thomas Paine

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

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…

— Frederick Douglass

[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…

— Frederick Douglass

For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

— Ron Paul

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

— Richard John Neuhaus

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

— L. Neil Smith