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1852.

"It was a great thing to achieve American Independence when we numbered three millions, but it was a greater thing to save this country from dismemberment and ruin when it numbered thirty millions."

~ Frederick Douglass, 1881.

May the United States of America acknowledge what is bad, celebrate what is good, and go on to do greater things in the future.

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Amen, he writes well:

"As I have said, this southern threat lost many votes, but it gained more than would cover the lost. It frightened the timid, but stimulated the brave; and the result was—the triumphant election of Abraham Lincoln."

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Life_and_Times_of_Frederick_D...

Marx wrote a letter of congratulations to Lincoln when he was elected as well, as a referendum on slavery. It would be silly to think that is uncritical support of the country tho.

wypipo. always cherry picking for comfort and absolution.

Please stop.

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