We don't know who John Brown was, and in many ways, his work shaped where we are today. He was a Pennsylvanian. He was the prototypical Yankee who fought back and suffered in doing so.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
John Brown was the abolitionist to end all abolitionists. People thought he was crazy. He was like John Coltrane playing free jazz, exhausting all possibilities in his approach to harmony and improvisation.
Strangely enough, the legend of John Brown, who was clearly crazy, helped the abolitionist cause and is thought to have precipitated the American Civil War.
People call him a terrorist, but you can use language to do many things and say many things about people, but John Brown was a hero.
James Brown was the Monday-to-Friday guy. He was the hardest man in show business. He was like your dad and your uncle: He showed up, and he hit hard.
John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
John Brown was clearly flawed in real life. He did some terrible things, but he did some things none of us would have had the heart to do. His moral leanings were unquestionably admirable.
John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.
James Brown's life was really a metaphor for our inability to talk about matters like race and class in America.
We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
The abolitionists were not like the rugged people out West, and they were not like John Brown, either. They were people who made speeches and did politics.