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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.”

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

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

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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.”

203. “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: “Now as then, the tradition of faith that drove Lewis is too often used not to pursue justice but to amass power. Now as then, many white Americans profess to believe the gospel. And now as then, too many are content to accede to religious teachings more in principle than in practice. My aim is to show how John Lewis did both – and if he did both, then perhaps more of us can, too.”

204. “Now as then, the tradition of faith that drove Lewis is too often used not to pursue justice but to amass power. Now as then, many white Americans profess to believe the gospel. And now as then, too many are content to accede to religious teachings more in principle than in practice. My aim is to show how John Lewis did both – and if he did both, then perhaps more of us can, too.”

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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.”

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

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

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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.”

207. “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: “Douglass understood history and the men who made it. Perfection was impossible; greatness was reserved for those who managed to move forward in an imperfect world:.”

208. “Douglass understood history and the men who made it. Perfection was impossible; greatness was reserved for those who managed to move forward in an imperfect world:.”

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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.”

209. “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: “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.”

210. “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.”

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

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

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

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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: “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.”

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

216. “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: “We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.”

217. “We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.”

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Jon Meacham Quote: “Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? – Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address.”

218. “Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? – Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address.”

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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.”

219. “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.”

220. “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.”

221. “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: “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.”

222. “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: “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.”

223. “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.”

224. “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: “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.”

225. “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: “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.”

226. “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: “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.”

227. “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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