"John Brown" Quotes
A comprehensive biography of the abolitionist John Brown and his pivotal role in the fight against slavery.
history | 310 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery.
The cost to the nation of maintaining this class of servitors is incalculable.
The germ of discontent was planted in the breast of the Negro; day by day it swelled and grew.
The black boy had two gifts which the white boy usually did not have; he was more imaginative and more emotional.
The Negro could not forget that slavery was a condition of color.
He was a strange mingling of good and evil, of passion and kindness, of love and hate.
The black man is a man; his rights are the rights of a man.
The black man was a menace to society; he must be taught to bear his burden with silent patience.
The Negro was a schismatic, a renegade, a traitor to his own class, to his own race.
The black man's burden was not light, and his path was not easy.
