Brown Quote by George Haven Putnam Download Open image “John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.” — George Haven Putnam ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brown Effort Insurrection John Peculiar Slave
John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection. — John Sergeant Wise 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
“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 Copy Share Image
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 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 the burning… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.” — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn finer… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Rebellion with him cancelled the slave covenants of the Constitution and discharged the North from their further observance.” — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue. — Abraham Lincoln 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 the burning… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you… — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is… — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government… — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success. — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which… — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
It's bluesy, rocky jazz. I call it soul music, but it's not James Brown soul music. It comes from my soul. It comes from… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently;… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull. — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the altogether delicious… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
If you're white, you're alright. If you're brown, stick around. but if you're black, oh baby. Get back, Get back, Get back. — Huddie William Ledbetter Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image