"Negroes, like other people, act upon motives...." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept.
More by Abraham Lincoln
“You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.”
“To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.”
“He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.”
More on Freedom
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
“There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.”
“To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.”
More on Justice
“That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.”
“There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.”
“The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime.”