John Brown Quotes

• En 1987 compré una casa en el norte del estado de New York y resultó que John Brown estaba enterrado al final de la calle de mi casa, que había vivido allí más tiempo que en ningún otro sitio y que su casa seguía en pie.

  Russell Banks

  New York, House, Buried

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• John Brown apareció por primera vez en mi visión en la década de 1960, cuando yo era activista político en el movimiento por los derechos civiles y el movimiento contra la guerra en Chapel Hill, donde fui a la universidad.

  Russell Banks

  War, Rights, Political

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

  Sargento John Wise

  Murder, Slave, Treason

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.91, Anza Publishing

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

  Frederick Douglass

  War, Slavery, Republic

  Frederick Douglass (2017). “Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn”, p.198, Akashic Books

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• 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

  Blood, Land, Civil War

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• If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because he's a white man who said he would die for the cause, because they could take him, but they weren't going to take his grandchildren. That brother was beautiful.

  Dick Gregory

  Beautiful, Brother, Writing

  Fuente: www.chicagotribune.com

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• 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

  Men, Direct Action, America

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.44, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• [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 sun... I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave.

  Frederick Douglass

  War, Light, Government

  Frederick Douglass' Lecture on John Brown, memory.loc.gov.

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• 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

  War, Writing, Virginia

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2428, Delphi Classics

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

  William Lloyd Garrison

  War, Gun, Noon

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• Muéstrenme a un hombre que sienta amargura hacia John Brown, y déjenme oír qué noble verso puede repetir. Se quedará tan mudo como si sus labios fueran de piedra.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Men, Dumb

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

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• 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 rebs!"

  Yip Harburg

  Hero, Night, Greatness

  "A Tribute to Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2004.

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• It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and tried to hurry dawn along with gunfire; now John Wilkes Booth heard the clock strike, and he tried with gunfire to restore the darkness. Each man stood outside the human community, directed by voices the sane do not hear, and each kept history from going logically... The line from Harper's Ferry to Ford's Theater is a red thread binding the immense disorder of the Civil War into an irrational sort of coherence.

  Bruce Catton

  Guerra, Noche, Hombres

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• 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?

  Bill Ayers

  Real, Gente, Guy

  Fuente: thepointmag.com

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• Una de las canciones que se me quedó grabada y que tuve muy en cuenta fue una vieja canción popular llamada "John Brown", no la del abolicionista John Brown, sino la que Bob Dylan ha versionado y cantado antes. Trata de un chico que vuelve a casa de la Guerra Civil, o quizá de la Primera Guerra Mundial, y su madre lo ve destrozado.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Mother, Song, War

  Fuente: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• [Sobre John Brown:] El pobre desgraciado es ahorcado, pero de su tumba brotará una raíz de amargura, cuyo fruto en un día no lejano puede ser la desunión y la guerra civil.

  Fanny Kemble

  Spring, War, Roots

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• 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

  Character, Law, Broken

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1897). “Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second”

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• 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

  Men, Dying, Immortality

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.72, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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

  Numbers, Historical, Pieces

  "El CEO de FX, John Landgraf, habla de la serie limitada FARGO, THE STRAIN y más; dice que THE STRAIN acabará durando entre 39 y 65 episodios". Entrevista con Christina Radish, collider.com. 2 de agosto de 2013.

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• As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South] failed, it became obvious to the conspirators that an actual military invasion was the only solution to their campaign. The merchant bankers of New England, who were directly controlled by the Rothschilds, were no instructed to finance a military attack against the South. Their instrumentality was the already well-known terrorist, John Brown. He was financed by a group famed as "the Secret Six".

  Eustace Mullins

  Military, War, Secret

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

  Ogden Nash

  Brown, Slabs, Ads

  'Lather as You Go' (1942)

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