Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes
When we have the red man's consent, let the union spread from the east to the west sea; and if Texas petitions Congress to be adopted among the sons of liberty, give her the right hand of fellowship; and refuse not the same friendly grip to Canada and Mexico.
This is one of the broadest views of American statehood that has been advocated. Smith had written to most of the then likely Presidential candidates of both major parties asking for their position on the Mormons who were facing persecution wherever they went. None of the politicians would make any satisfactory commitments. Smith took direct action and became the only major religious official to have run for the Presidency of the United States until Pat Robertson tried and failed in 2000. Smith’s assassination shortly thereafter cut his run for the Presidency short before it made much headway but politically he had no chance to affect the race anywa.
Joseph Smith, Jr., 1805-1844, Founder of the Mormon Religion, General Smith's Views on the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States, Platform for his run for the Presidency, February 7, 1844
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France had been hit with repeated riots of Muslim and African French citizens and immigrants. Thousands of cars were burned, property damaged and violence of the protesters had injured and killed bystanders. The major complaint was that they were not really accepted as equals in French society. Chirac tried to calm the rioters and prevent a backlash. Although France was a pioneering country in acceptance and tolerance of people of different races and religions, there has always been a strong intolerant segment of French Society that were racist, anti-Semitic and Fascist leaning. Because of the French concept of equality, affirmative action was not legally possible in France so that there was heavy discrimination and even segregation in housing, schools, occupations, and socially. Further, one of the traditional expectations of all immigrants who become French is that they adopt the French language and culture. Like immigrants throughout the world at the end of the 20th century, French immigrants often wanted to maintain their own customs, culture and language—a practice which set them at odds even with otherwise nondiscriminatory Frenchmen and women.
This quotation is very important in that this is the first record that Lincoln had any doubts that he might not be able to preserve the Union.
In an unprecedent event for Broadway, Victor Dixon, as the cast was taking its curtain call of the then hootest musical play, "Halilton", read aloud this statement to the audience and the new Vice President Elect, Mike Pence who was attending the show. The document had been written and endorsed by the entire cast as a group. The trigger for this unusal happening was the winning of the presidency by Donald Trump who had throughout the campain made many racist statements about monorities and a contual tirade of sexist, anti-female statements. It had also been revealed that Tromp had been sexually accosting women. During and after the campaign, Pence had not himself made any of these statemetns or even indicated that he agreed with them, but he did not public;y deagree or disavow them. The message was clarly meandt for Donald Trump. The Vice President then walked out, and many in the audience booed him in the process. Victor Dixon asked them not do boo the vice president as the cast was trying to keep thir message on a high plane, but the audience wanted to express their view. Pence was hot offended personally by the message but walked out in defference to Trump. Teh President elect however was outraged and in the early morning hours went on one of his many tweeting tirades against the cast of Hamilton--to many an overreaction to criticism to which Presidents in America have to become accostomed.
Joseph Smith, Jr. was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was twenty-four, Smith published the Book of Mormon. By the time of his death fourteen years later, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religious culture that continues to the present.
