Ronald Reagan Quotes
The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope and dream of freedom. For if we fail or falter, there'll be no place for the world's oppressed to flee to. This is not a role we sought. We preach no manifest destiny. But like the Americans who brought a new nation into the world 200 years ago, history has asked much of us in our time. Much we've already given; much more we must be prepared to give.
Hannaford, Peter, ed. The Quotable Ronald Reagan. Regnery Publishing, 1998, p. 112.
Moss and two other blacks had had the temerity to open a grocery store. White competitors attempted to have the city authorities close the store. When that failed, a mob took the three Black owners to the city limits and shot them all to death. Moss was a close friend of Ida B. Wells, and his lynching started her on her no famous anti-lynching expose and campaign. See {44393} for her initial response.
This leading “conductor” of the Underground Railroad carried a loaded pistol which she brandished if escaping slaves would get discouraged and not follow instructions endangering the others or the organization itself. The Underground Railroad referred to the clandestine method that Tubman and other “conductors” would risk their own lives by going down South and guiding escaped slaves through a series of safe houses and locations “stations” until they reached Canada where slaves could not be legally recaptured.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and became a highly influential voice of modern conservatism. Prior to his presidency, he was a Hollywood actor and union leader before serving as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975.
