Watching Ken Burns Civil War. Again now after 30 years. A quote that just was read:
“As a nation, we began by declaring that all men are created equal; we now practically declare it all men treated equal, except Neurose. Soon it will read all men are created equal, except negroes and foreigners and Catholics. When it comes to this, I should prefer immigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty; to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure and without base alloy of hypocrisy.” – Abraham Lincoln, in a private letter to his friend Joshua F Speed, August 24, 1855.
