Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Abraham Lincoln: My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the ... | Citatis

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.

W. E. B. Du Bois
- Men
- Black
- Day
Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

Mal Peet
- Media
- Destroy
- Heroes
Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

Maggie Gallagher
- Suicide
- Union
- Oregon
It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.

Federica Mogherini
- Fear
- Diversity
- Destroy
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

Carl Bernstein
- Great
- American
- History
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

Samuel Hopkins
- Done
- Liberty
- Slavery