Where Lincoln sought to unite the country for the benefit of all, Trump seeks to divide the country for personal profit and power.
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What’s really scary is that when Trump is finally pushed out of office (either by being voted out or other means) he will encourage his followers to start a civil war. He cares more about himself than the US.
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Our country is currently facing its greatest crisis since the Civil War. Only time will tell whether or not we can withstand it.
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Very true — and I don’t see him leaving the White House voluntarily. What will happen when he is ejected is anyone’s guess, but it will definitely be a crisis situation.
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some
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and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; - A. Lincoln letter to Horace Greeley, 8/22/1862
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And, if he had thought it out, he would have repatriated every single one of them.
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I believe Lincoln, along with Thomas Jefferson, and many others believed that sending previously enslaved People back to Africa was the best logical solution. Some indeed were.
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We are not a house divided. We are a house invaded.
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If you are an American, study
#Lincoln. Study#Grant. Study#FredrickDouglass. Every day. Then repeat. Every day. There are few greater examples of struggling with Q’s of morality &, more often than not, doing the right thing.#History matters. Big time.#USHistory#BetterAngelsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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To my American friends who are looking for inspiration this coming July 4 listen at least once to Aaron Copeland’s A Lincoln Portrait. My favourite recording has narration by the famed American poet Carl Sandburg.

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Perhaps this is why our country is wobbling right now! Half of country seems to be lacking compassion and civility!
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We have so more in common than what seperates us. The rich have succeed in having us peasants fighting amongst ourselves while they rape and pillage.
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Personally, I prefer the September 11, 1858 speech in Edwardsville.
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"when you have extinguished his soul, and placed him where the ray of hope is blown out in darkness like that which broods over the spirits of the damned; are you quite sure the demon which you have roused will not turn and rend you?
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we sure could use honest Abe now!
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"The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender." Proverbs 22:7pic.twitter.com/TnEx20p6Qx
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