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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. -- Russell Banks
The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing. -- Russell Banks
John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection. -- John Sergeant Wise
Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road. -- Ogden Nash
In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon. -- William Lloyd Garrison
Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic. -- Frederick Douglass
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
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. -- Henry David Thoreau
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. -- Henry David Thoreau
[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. -- Fanny Kemble
Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way. All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today . Socrates and Galileo , John Brown, Thoreau , Christ , and Debs Heard the night cry down with traitors, and the dawn shout "Up the reds! -- Yip Harburg
Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown. -- Louise Imogen Guiney
This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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. -- John Landgraf
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood. -- John Mason Brown
John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. -- George Haven Putnam

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