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“The price of repression is greater than the cost of liberty. The degradation of men costs something both to the degraded and those who degrade.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, John Brown

“What would be the cost of liberty? What would be the cost of giving the great stocks of mankind every reasonable help and incentive to self-development—opening the avenues of opportunity freely, spreading knowledge, suppressing war and cheating, and treating men and women as equals the world over whenever and wherever they attain equality?”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, John Brown

“So Kansas was free. In vain did the sullen Senate in Washington fume and threaten and keep the young state knocking for admission; the game had been played and lost and Kansas was free. Free because the slave barons played for an imperial stake in defiance of modern humanity and economic development. Free because strong men had suffered and fought not against slavery but against slaves in Kansas. Above all, free because one man hated slavery and on a terrible night rode down with his sons among the shadows of the Swamp of the Swan—that long, low-winding and sombre stream "fringed everywhere with woods" ​and dark with bloody memory. Forty-eight hours they lingered there, and then of a pale May morning rode up to the world again. Behind them lay five twisted, red and mangled corpses. Behind them rose the stifled wailing of widows and little children. Behind them the fearful driver gazed and shuddered. But before them rode a man, tall, dark, grim-faced and awful. His hands were red and his name was John Brown. Such was the cost of freedom.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, John Brown

“Four things make life worthy to most men: to move, to know, to love, to aspire.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, John Brown

“Was John Brown simply an episode, or was he an eternal truth? And if a truth, how speaks that truth today?”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, John Brown A Biography of American abolitionist

“You had better—all you people of the Southâ€� prepare yourselves for a settlement of this question. It must come up for settlement sooner than you are prepared for it, and the sooner you commence that preparation, the better for you. You may dispose of me very easily—I am nearly disposed of now; but this question is still to be settledâ€� this Negro question, I mean. The end of that is not yet.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, John Brown

“John Brown taught us that the cheapest price to pay for liberty is its cost to-day.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, John Brown

“a man whose leadership lay not in his office, wealth or influence, but in the white flame of his utter devotion to an ideal.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, John Brown

“We have here a wonderful industrial machine, but a machine quickly rather than carefully built, formed of forcing rather than of growth, involving sinful and unnecessary expense. Better smaller production and more equitable distribution; better fewer miles of railway and more honor, truth, and liberty; better fewer millionaires and more contentment”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, John Brown