John Brown Quotes

“I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day, nor a storm so furious or dreadful as to prevent the return of warm sunshine and a cloudless sky.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, John Brown: A Biography

“His hands were red and his name was John Brown. Such was the cost of freedom.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, John Brown: A Biography

“The degradation of men costs something both to the degraded and those who degrade.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, John Brown: A Biography

“My attachments to this world have been very strong and divine Providence has been cutting me loose, one cord after another. Up to the present time notwithstanding I have so much to remind me that all ties must soon be severed, I am still clinging like those who have hardly taken a single lesson.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, John Brown: A Biography