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Jon Meacham Quote: “It was, instead, about urging African Americans to draw on the traditions of the American Revolution to battle state-sanctioned white supremacy in order to claim their rightful place as citizens.”

201. “It was, instead, about urging African Americans to draw on the traditions of the American Revolution to battle state-sanctioned white supremacy in order to claim their rightful place as citizens.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “Passion could fray the bonds of union, divide one from another, and fatally wound the American experiment in democracy that Lincoln defined as “the capability of a people to govern themselves.”

202. “Passion could fray the bonds of union, divide one from another, and fatally wound the American experiment in democracy that Lincoln defined as “the capability of a people to govern themselves.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”

203. “So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “The presidency which under Lincoln had been a tool of transformation had become, under Johnson, a refuge from modernity.”

204. “The presidency which under Lincoln had been a tool of transformation had become, under Johnson, a refuge from modernity.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “Lincoln replied, “Yes, I have; and I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

205. “Lincoln replied, “Yes, I have; and I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “A president sets a tone for the nation and helps tailor habits of heart and of mind.”

206. “A president sets a tone for the nation and helps tailor habits of heart and of mind.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “Sometimes I am afraid to go to sleep for fear that I will wake up and our democracy will be gone and never return.”

207. “Sometimes I am afraid to go to sleep for fear that I will wake up and our democracy will be gone and never return.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “Frederick Douglass, so recently hopeful, was unhappy. The speech was “little better than our worst fears,” Douglass remarked. That the president continued to express respect for slavery where it existed was crushing; by pledging to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts, Douglass said, Lincoln had portrayed himself as “an excellent slave hound.” Douglass had been considering immigrating to Haiti, and he saw nothing in Lincoln’s inaugural address to change his mind – in fact, quite the opposite.”

208. “Frederick Douglass, so recently hopeful, was unhappy. The speech was “little better than our worst fears,” Douglass remarked. That the president continued to express respect for slavery where it existed was crushing; by pledging to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts, Douglass said, Lincoln had portrayed himself as “an excellent slave hound.” Douglass had been considering immigrating to Haiti, and he saw nothing in Lincoln’s inaugural address to change his mind – in fact, quite the opposite.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “At times in its history, Christianity has been an instrument of repression. In our living memory, however, it has also been deployed as a means of liberation and progress.”

209. “At times in its history, Christianity has been an instrument of repression. In our living memory, however, it has also been deployed as a means of liberation and progress.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “The opposite of fear is hope, defined as the expectation of good fortune not only for ourselves but for the group to which we belong.”

210. “The opposite of fear is hope, defined as the expectation of good fortune not only for ourselves but for the group to which we belong.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “Passion could fray the bonds of union, divide one from another, and fatally wound the American experiment in democracy that Lincoln defined as “the capability of a people to govern themselves.” He worried about trouble coming from the many as well as the few – or even the one, in the form of a demagogue who might try to profit from lawlessness and distrust.”

211. “Passion could fray the bonds of union, divide one from another, and fatally wound the American experiment in democracy that Lincoln defined as “the capability of a people to govern themselves.” He worried about trouble coming from the many as well as the few – or even the one, in the form of a demagogue who might try to profit from lawlessness and distrust.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “There it was again: conscience. Lincoln believed he was acting according to motives higher than the merely political. “The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance,” Lincoln had written to the Quaker Eliza P. Gurney in September. “Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.”

212. “There it was again: conscience. Lincoln believed he was acting according to motives higher than the merely political. “The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance,” Lincoln had written to the Quaker Eliza P. Gurney in September. “Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “It’s tempting to romanticize the words King spoke before the Lincoln Memorial. To do so, however, cheapens the courage of the nonviolent soldiers of freedom who faced – and too often paid – the ultimate price for daring America to live up to the implications of the Declaration of Independence and become a country in which liberty was innate and universal, not particular to station, creed, or color.”

213. “It’s tempting to romanticize the words King spoke before the Lincoln Memorial. To do so, however, cheapens the courage of the nonviolent soldiers of freedom who faced – and too often paid – the ultimate price for daring America to live up to the implications of the Declaration of Independence and become a country in which liberty was innate and universal, not particular to station, creed, or color.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.”

214. “All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “Lincoln would come to see democracy as a work in progress, a process in which reason took its chances against prejudice and passion.”

215. “Lincoln would come to see democracy as a work in progress, a process in which reason took its chances against prejudice and passion.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it,” the president said. “These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.” There was no escaping this central truth.”

216. “One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it,” the president said. “These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.” There was no escaping this central truth.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “If sufficiently developed and organized, public sentiment, as manifested in Congress, can prevail over presidential intransigence. Lincoln.”

217. “If sufficiently developed and organized, public sentiment, as manifested in Congress, can prevail over presidential intransigence. Lincoln.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass: Their voices, articulating the feelings of innumerable others, ultimately prevailed in the causes of emancipation and of suffrage.”

218. “Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass: Their voices, articulating the feelings of innumerable others, ultimately prevailed in the causes of emancipation and of suffrage.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “In his closing remarks, King spoke from a mountaintop, a prophet bringing word from on high. Lewis spoke more simply, from the valley, among the people whose burdens he knew because they were his burdens too.”

219. “In his closing remarks, King spoke from a mountaintop, a prophet bringing word from on high. Lewis spoke more simply, from the valley, among the people whose burdens he knew because they were his burdens too.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “That, Lincoln understood, was the moral work of politics: to make the good outweigh the bad.”

220. “That, Lincoln understood, was the moral work of politics: to make the good outweigh the bad.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “Reform is slow work, and it is for neither the fainthearted nor the impatient.”

221. “Reform is slow work, and it is for neither the fainthearted nor the impatient.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “From Plato to Kant, the substance of what is known as the Golden Rule – one common to the world’s religious and moral traditions – has occupied philosophers across the ages. Lincoln’s own sensibility – both moral and political – was founded on this injunction. “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master,” he once wrote. “This expresses my idea of democracy.”

222. “From Plato to Kant, the substance of what is known as the Golden Rule – one common to the world’s religious and moral traditions – has occupied philosophers across the ages. Lincoln’s own sensibility – both moral and political – was founded on this injunction. “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master,” he once wrote. “This expresses my idea of democracy.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “In the final analysis, we are one people, one family, one house – not just the house of black and white, but the house of the South, the house of America,” Lewis said. “We can move ahead, we can move forward, we can create a multiracial community, a truly democratic society. I think we’re on our way there. There may be some setbacks. But we are going to get there. We have to be hopeful. Never give up, never give in, keep moving on.”

223. “In the final analysis, we are one people, one family, one house – not just the house of black and white, but the house of the South, the house of America,” Lewis said. “We can move ahead, we can move forward, we can create a multiracial community, a truly democratic society. I think we’re on our way there. There may be some setbacks. But we are going to get there. We have to be hopeful. Never give up, never give in, keep moving on.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “Once, when a Republican congressman from Massachusetts accused Lincoln of having changed his mind, Lincoln replied, “Yes, I have; and I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

224. “Once, when a Republican congressman from Massachusetts accused Lincoln of having changed his mind, Lincoln replied, “Yes, I have; and I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, ’the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.”

225. “God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, ’the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “One wishes for a better outcome, for wiser heads, for a more compassionate public. Yet one wishes in vain. The only comfort, if we can call it that, is that a knowledge of our past failings may equip us to confront evil without delay when evil comes again. For it will.”

226. “One wishes for a better outcome, for wiser heads, for a more compassionate public. Yet one wishes in vain. The only comfort, if we can call it that, is that a knowledge of our past failings may equip us to confront evil without delay when evil comes again. For it will.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “As Lincoln remarked, “It is my private opinion that, if the Lord has been in Springfield once, he will never come the second time.”

227. “As Lincoln remarked, “It is my private opinion that, if the Lord has been in Springfield once, he will never come the second time.”

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