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NoNukes
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Message 3 of 14 (755808)
04-11-2015 6:19 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Percy
04-11-2015 4:14 PM


It is regrettable that black Americans do not have the right to vote. I think we should give that right to those who are very intelligent.
I'm not going to give the answer so as to give others a chance. However the final sentence as actually presented does not end with a period at the point where it appears in your quote, and what's left is fairly important. I would be all over a creationist who posted something like that even with ellipsis dots. I'll speak more directly on this once the answer is given.
Edited by NoNukes, : added "does not end"

Je Suis Charlie
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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NoNukes
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Message 13 of 14 (756105)
04-15-2015 11:55 AM
Reply to: Message 10 by Theodoric
04-15-2015 9:20 AM


This is from his last public address on April, 11 1865
In fact, this speech might well have gotten Lincoln killed.

Je Suis Charlie
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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NoNukes
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Message 14 of 14 (756106)
04-15-2015 12:00 PM
Reply to: Message 4 by Percy
04-12-2015 7:55 AM


Looking at it today I think my paraphrasing still left the answer a bit too obvious
You left in a too many of the original words. I recognized the source as Lincoln, but I still found that the easiest way to find a copy of the speech was grabbing about a half sentence and dumping it into a search box.
Very timely quote as Theodoric points out.

Je Suis Charlie
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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