Brown Quote by John Sergeant Wise

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

— George Haven Putnam

“as is usual in treason trials, they will have no legal representation. But they will have a chance to speak, and represent themselves, and…

— Hilary Mantel

Secretary Mayorkas must be impeached and tried for treason.

— John E. James

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

As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South] failed, it…

— Eustace Mullins

“On Ho Chi Minh's desk in Hanoi on the day he died lay a biography of John Brown.”

— James W. Loewen

“lived in the family of a Mr. Brown, the father of John Brown—"whose body lies mouldering in the grave, while his soul goes marching…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“If we had learned anything over the last decade, it was that there was no other way to defeat slavery, except with a willingness…

— Russell Banks

“He is a strange, resolute, repulsive, iron-willed, inexorable old man, [possessing] a firey nature and a cold temper, and a cooler head--a volcano beneath…

— William A. Phillips

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had…

— Henry David Thoreau

Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.

— Ogden Nash

It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys…

— Bill Ayers