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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
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.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
No man is a hero in his own country.
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.