Kind of ironic isn't it....on what is the 199th birthday of Lincoln, another senator from Illinois is running for office and that on this day or all days, people of all colors and creeds in this region get to decide who they would like to run for high office in November.
Ironic even more that when he himself ran for President, he was an underdog with radical views not in line with everyone else's thinking, especially when what he would do would radically change the economic and social climate of the 19th century world. he too was an unknown but hey who would have thought that almost 200 years later we would see the same thing.
As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be take pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy
-Abraham Lincoln courtesy
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
"There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the american people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.."
- Frederick Douglass (we share the same birthday...hehehe)
http://www.americancivilwar.com/colo..._douglass.html
Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual. We must construct that people-centred society of freedom in such a manner that it guarantees the political liberties and the human rights of all our citizens."
- Nelson Mandela -
http://africanhistory.about.com/od/m...s_mandela1.htm
The true test of the American ideal is whether we’re able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life’s big winners and losers, or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead, and reach their dreams.
BARACK OBAMA -
http://www.notable-quotes.com/o/obama_barack.html
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