The wife of one of the men said Brown told her: "If a man stands between me and what I believe to be right, I will take his life as coolly as I would eat my breakfast."
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My maw and me and Mattie were going to have breakfast and there they all were on top of the kitchen table and up on the sink and the draining board, piles of them.
When listening over breakfast to what people had to say of my comrades and me, I saw a pattern emerge: we were all, in a way, thanking each person for having mentored the others.
"A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that, " Linney says.