[Peace-discuss] July 4 parade

[John W.]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Morton K. Brussel <brussel at illinois.edu>wrote:

I would suggest the evaluation of Lincoln given by Eric Foner (and others)
> who note that one should realize that Lincoln changed during his course as
> President. The quotation below is from 1858…  Better to refer to
>
> http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090126/foner
>
> --mkb
>


Now here's a marvelous idea.  AWARE could carry 4th of July placards
containing Web URLs like the above.  They're short, pithy, would fit easily
on placards; they serve as placeholders for deeper, more nuanced truths; and
they appeal to the technoliterate generation, who could look them up
immediately on their Blackberries.  Parade problem ingeniously solved.





> On May 20, 2009, at 6:46 AM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
>
>  Another Lincoln quote:
>
> *“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing
> about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black
> races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors
> of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with
> white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical
> difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever
> forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political
> equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together
> there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any
> other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white
> race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man
> is to have the superior position the Negro should be denied everything."
>
> *-  Charleston IL September 18, 1858
>
>
>
>
> On 5/19/2009 12:17 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
> The problem is that he probably didn't say it...
>
> Karen Medina wrote:
>
> "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the
> people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of
> the time."
> Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
>
>
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