Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created e…

Abraham Lincoln
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Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a sacred right of self-government. These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other. ✨ Abraham Lincoln (2009). The Portable Abraham Lincoln, p.72, Penguin
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