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Abraham Lincoln: “Or, if one out of four will, for his own freedom fight to keep the other three in slavery, he ought to be a slave for…”

On the recordMarch 17, 1865
Or, if one out of four will, for his own freedom fight to keep the other three in slavery, he ought to be a slave for his selfish meanness.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Speaking to an Indiana regiment, Lincoln expresses his contempt for the idea of a person fighting for their own freedom at the expense of others' enslavement.

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