John Brown Quotes

John Brown Quote of the day

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

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 at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

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

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

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

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys is in favor of slavery, right?

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist John Brown with Paul Giamatti.