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Jon Meacham Quote: “Black people, Taney went on, “had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”

201. “Black people, Taney went on, “had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “The work of reformers – long, hard, almost unimaginably difficult work – can lead to progress and a broader understanding of who is included in the phrase “We, the People” that opened the Preamble of the Constitution. And that work unfolds still.”

202. “The work of reformers – long, hard, almost unimaginably difficult work – can lead to progress and a broader understanding of who is included in the phrase “We, the People” that opened the Preamble of the Constitution. And that work unfolds still.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “The message of the civil rights movement was straightforward, and it was a message grounded in hope: We are one people; we are one family; we all live in the same house – the American house, the world house.”

203. “The message of the civil rights movement was straightforward, and it was a message grounded in hope: We are one people; we are one family; we all live in the same house – the American house, the world house.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “Mr. Lincoln had no faith and no hope in the usual acceptation of those words,” Mary Lincoln recalled. “He never joined a Church; but still, as I believe, he was a religious man by nature.”

204. “Mr. Lincoln had no faith and no hope in the usual acceptation of those words,” Mary Lincoln recalled. “He never joined a Church; but still, as I believe, he was a religious man by nature.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “The first is freedom of speech and expression – everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way – everywhere in the world.”

205. “The first is freedom of speech and expression – everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way – everywhere in the world.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “John Adams had foreseen how central the president would be in American life. “His person, countenance, character, and actions, are made the daily contemplation and conversation of the whole people,” Adams wrote in 1790.”

206. “John Adams had foreseen how central the president would be in American life. “His person, countenance, character, and actions, are made the daily contemplation and conversation of the whole people,” Adams wrote in 1790.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case, and pay the cost.”

207. “It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case, and pay the cost.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “The colonization proposals underscored a tragic reality. One could – and many white Americans did – oppose slavery while failing to engage the prospective creation of a multiracial democracy.”

208. “The colonization proposals underscored a tragic reality. One could – and many white Americans did – oppose slavery while failing to engage the prospective creation of a multiracial democracy.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “The founding religion – at least in the Declaration – was based more on a religion of reason than of revelation. But it was still religion.”

209. “The founding religion – at least in the Declaration – was based more on a religion of reason than of revelation. But it was still religion.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “And the tragedy of America is that we can imagine justice but cannot finally realize it.”

210. “And the tragedy of America is that we can imagine justice but cannot finally realize it.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “The New York Herald said there could be plans “to take the Capitol by violence.” The counting of the Electoral College votes, scheduled for Wednesday, February 13, might be stopped.”

211. “The New York Herald said there could be plans “to take the Capitol by violence.” The counting of the Electoral College votes, scheduled for Wednesday, February 13, might be stopped.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “The lesson of Lewis was that sustained personal witness to injustice, borne in the public arena where opinions are shaped, laws enacted, and reality changed, is vital. “John’s.”

212. “The lesson of Lewis was that sustained personal witness to injustice, borne in the public arena where opinions are shaped, laws enacted, and reality changed, is vital. “John’s.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “To seek vindication in the world but to suspect.”

213. “To seek vindication in the world but to suspect.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “Progress in America does not usually begin at the top and among the few, but from the bottom and among the many.”

214. “Progress in America does not usually begin at the top and among the few, but from the bottom and among the many.”

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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.”

215. “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.”

216. “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.”

217. “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.”

218. “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: “There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.”

219. “There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.”

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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.”

220. “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.”

221. “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.”

222. “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.”

223. “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.”

224. “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.”

225. “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.”

226. “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.”

227. “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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