John Brown Frederick Douglass Quotes & Sayings

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 live for the slave; John Brown could die for him. The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery. — Frederick Douglass

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