My Fellow Citizens
Glenn Daniels II
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. For this day, today, is the day we will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No matter how you view yourself as a person, whether it is a person of significance or insignificance, none of us will be spared from this judgment of our fiery trail. A fiery trail that we must face and will be judged by all future generations of Americans.
This great nation’s founding documents state we are for justice, liberty, and equality for all. The world has not forgotten what we have said.
Our children will certainly not forget what we have said and will remember and judge our actions.
It is time for us to save our nation.
Vote to end hate, vote to end Tierney, vote to end laws that are a sin against humans
Vote to save our Nation
The world sits in judgment of us. The world waits to see if this nation will survive. Some Nations hoping that we will survive and some hoping that we will not survive.
Although we do not care about the world as much as we care about the next generations of Americans.
We here today hold the power and the responsibility.
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We -- even we here -- hold the power, and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just -- a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.
Source: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler et al. My