If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.
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All the anxious politicians of his party, or who ha... ABRAHAM LINCOLN We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise hi... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main m... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the arm... ABRAHAM LINCOLN The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, ar... ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know t... ABRAHAM LINCOLN If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocab... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain... ABRAHAM LINCOLN In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race In the sweat of thy face ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN It is better, then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain itkeep it.... ABRAHAM LINCOLN The most notable feature of a disturbance in your city last summer, was the hanging of some working ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of our Nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible.... ABRAHAM LINCOLN All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth in their mili... ABRAHAM LINCOLN He said that he felt like the boy that stumped his toe,it hurt too bad to laugh, and he was too big ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by inte... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Dear Madam,I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advan... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Dont interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safegu... ABRAHAM LINCOLN To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be... ABRAHAM LINCOLN A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently ha... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I wou... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of hi... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Singular indeed that the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one amon... ABRAHAM LINCOLN This extraordinary war in which we are engaged falls heavily upon all classes of people, but the mos... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Honor to the Soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his countrys cause. Honor also to the... ABRAHAM LINCOLN The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. ABRAHAM LINCOLN