John Brown should be compared to Toussaint and Nat Turner,...however Malcolm wasn't too far away from this philosophy of you need a "bloody revolution" if you wanna be free. Some of his speeches in Harlem were "scary" and meant armed struggle. Malcolm said America did not get her freedom from Great Britain by preaching we shall over come, he said "bloodshed". He also told Black soldiers in a speech that they go bleed for the white man all over the world but when it comes to bleeding in America for their brothers and sisters freedom they all of sudden got no blood.
Malcolm X argued that "bloodshed" is an inherent part of historical revolutions. Fact!! 
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Looks gross!
I wonder if there's a way get any DNA from the dried blood to see if there's any African DNA in the mix. Oh lawwwwd
Malcolm X wasn't like John Brown. John Brown was a pure revolutionary on behalf of Black Liberation. Malcolm was mostly a rhetorical guy in terms of revolution - his voice was needed and appreciated. But that's a far cry from taking up arms in the struggle for Black Liberation.
Lol, John Brown also betrayed Frederick Douglass as a bit of a coward who, like Malcolm, was mostly about rhetorics, not armed struggle!
I think those closest to John Brown would be Toussaint, and especially Desalines. And guys like Nat Turner etc.
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