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"Mr. Lincoln, I've Decided to Trust You!" script, 1967
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37 MR. LINCOLN (just browsing) "Here's one I am proud of... Equality in society alike beats inequality, whether the latter by of the British Aristocratic sort or of the domestic slave sort. We know Southern men declare their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know where of they speak. As labor is the common burden of our race, so the efforts of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is a great durable curse of the race. Originally a cure for the transgression upon the whole race, when, as by slavery, it is concentrated on a part only, it becomes the double refined curse of God upon his creatures." (pause--thumbing through) "Of this I am most proud..."Fellow countrymen, Americans, South as well as North..,already the liberal party throughout the world express the apprehension "that one retrograde institution in America is undermining the principles of progress, and fatally violation the noblest political system the world ever saw." This not the taunt of enemies, but a warning of friends. Is it quite safe to disregard it...to despise it? Is there no danger to liberty itself in disregarding the earliest practice and first precepts of an ancient faith? In our greedy chase to make profit of the Negro, let even the white man's charter of freedom." MR. X. "Those words are needed today, Mr. Lincoln." MR. LINCOLN "They are not lost...dead words have a way of falling on live lips.".....Here's the Gettysburg Address..." ALL "Four score and seven years..." 3RD READER "We all know those words, they were the burden of our childhood days...I wonder how many knuckles were cracked, and how many children were made to stand in how many corners; because they could not mouth those lines."
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37 MR. LINCOLN (just browsing) "Here's one I am proud of... Equality in society alike beats inequality, whether the latter by of the British Aristocratic sort or of the domestic slave sort. We know Southern men declare their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know where of they speak. As labor is the common burden of our race, so the efforts of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is a great durable curse of the race. Originally a cure for the transgression upon the whole race, when, as by slavery, it is concentrated on a part only, it becomes the double refined curse of God upon his creatures." (pause--thumbing through) "Of this I am most proud..."Fellow countrymen, Americans, South as well as North..,already the liberal party throughout the world express the apprehension "that one retrograde institution in America is undermining the principles of progress, and fatally violation the noblest political system the world ever saw." This not the taunt of enemies, but a warning of friends. Is it quite safe to disregard it...to despise it? Is there no danger to liberty itself in disregarding the earliest practice and first precepts of an ancient faith? In our greedy chase to make profit of the Negro, let even the white man's charter of freedom." MR. X. "Those words are needed today, Mr. Lincoln." MR. LINCOLN "They are not lost...dead words have a way of falling on live lips.".....Here's the Gettysburg Address..." ALL "Four score and seven years..." 3RD READER "We all know those words, they were the burden of our childhood days...I wonder how many knuckles were cracked, and how many children were made to stand in how many corners; because they could not mouth those lines."
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