"I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal."
"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."
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."
"There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite."
Abraham Lincoln
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
"It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."
"And as Lincoln called once upon the better angels of our nature, I believe that he is calling still, across the ages, to summon some measure of that character, the American character, in each of us today."
Barack Obama
Existe uma clara ligação entre Barack Obama e Abraham Lincoln, um dos presidentes americanos mais adorados até ... até ... ter sido assassinado.
As carreiras de ambos foram comparadas e mostram enormes semelhanças. Mas, e o que dizem os "astros"? :-)
Vou viajar para Washington dentro de 4 semanas e espero poder sentir esta nova realidade. Aquilo que senti há 2 anos atrás (quando lá estive) foi demasiado triste!
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