Antonyms for John Brownjohn brown

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1. • Abolitionist

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1. Brown, John Brownnoun

   abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)

   Synonyms:
   brownness

How to use John Brown in a sentence?

1. John Brown:

   I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

2. Timothy McVeigh:

   I determined that the best way would be to continue on as the Paul Revere type messenger instead of the John Brown type revolutionary, that you could accomplish maybe two in one.

3. John Brown, last words in a written note given to his jailer, Dec. 2, 1859:

   I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that, without very much bloodshed, it might be done.

4. William Kunstler:

   You can crucify a Jesus, you can poison a Socrates, you can hang John Brown or Nathan Hale, you can kill a Che Guevara, you can jail a Eugene Debs or a Bobby Seale. You can assassinate John Kennedy or a Martin Luther King, but the problems remain, the hangman's rope never solved a single problem except that of one man.

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