Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States (Republican, IL), Statment in reply to a committee from the New York Workingmen's Association, March 21, 1864
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This saying is very similar to the English ones, but this is much older. Since the Vikings occupied much of England for centuries, it may be that this was the origin. However, similar notions appear in many societies.
Lincoln had instituted the first draft in American History and it was terribly resented by many Americans. The draft laws allowed the wealthy and upper middle class to avoid service by paying a $300 fee of hiring a substitute just like in the Vietnam War the upper classes could get College Draft deferments. The mob led mostly by poor Irish, began by protesting the draft; then they attacked the mansions and houses of the wealthy; and then they went after Blacks. The Irish poor feared large numbers of Negroes coming out of slavery and competing for their jobs and lowering the prevailing wages. Blacks were beaten and lynched and 5,000 almost half of the then Negro population were driven to Brooklyn, New Jersey and the New York suburbs. It was the worst riot in United States History.
See also Coke's Reports, Semayne's Case, 1605. Compare Blackstone, above.
The general had reported to the Czar that he had peacefully dissipated a protesting mob without firing a shot. The Czar felt that the absence of shooting and killing protesters would simply encourage more protests. See {613675}.
1st Baron Macaulay. When there were riots or violent demonstrations in those days, the demonstrators would break up the street pavements and use the stone blocks to throw at police or soldiers. Change, reform and revolution has often occurred in England, the United States and several other democracies without riots or violent demonstrations. The Civil Rights movement demonstrations in the South often turned violent, but the violence never came from the protestors, but those opposed whose violence was condoned by the police often produced by the police themselves.
Dictators like Bashir view protests and demonstrations as threats to stability of the nation. The statement is code for “Stop the demonstrations, because stability is more important than reform.
This quotation illustrates degree of hatred that the French had for the English for the hundreds of years of their European superpower rivalry.
There was a large contingent of whites who showed up—many invited and expected and many who came on their own.
J. Edgar Hoover, the racist FBI Director, and the Chief of Police of the all white Washington DC Police Force, had made phone calls and sent memos to as many important people they could reach, warning that there was bound to be violence if 100,00 militant Blacks tried to march on Washington. There were twice that number planned for by Bayard Rustin, the man in charge of the March planning, but 250,000 showed up. There were very few incidents and no injuries and deaths as a result of some brilliant planning by Rustin and the cooperation of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy—the President’s brother—with Rustin. However, the fear spread by Hoover and others caused the major league baseball games to be cancelled, liquor stores to be closed, stores and offices throughout the city were intimidated and closed. But it was one of the best organized and peaceful social/political demonstrations in history.
The Muslim Brotherhood Government had just been deposed by a popular coup d’etat carried out by the Egyptian military. The Brotherhood flooded into the streets to protest the coup and some of them attacked police with weapons. The military overreacted and in an effort to clear the demonstrators from the streets killed hundreds of them. This brought out signs like this.
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
