...war itself — even though true freedom for African Americans lay far in the future: Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The...

...anew. We must disinthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We, of this Congress and this Administration,...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The...

...history that great Republican, Abraham Lincoln, said: "Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We... will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal...in honor or dishonor to the latest generation... We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility. We shall nobly save or meanly lose...

...for our deliberation. I quote, paraphrasing slightly: We cannot escape history. We of this meeting will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal...or another of us. The fiery trial through which we are passing will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We say we are for Peace....

...we shall save our country." "Fellow citizens," Lincoln concluded, "ive cannot escape history. . . . The fiery trial through which we pass, will light...down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. ... In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free." And so, in the end, "we shall nobly...

...disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history . . . The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generations. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.'' 7 For weeks, General...

...anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world knows, we do know how to save it. We— even we here — hold the power...

...sand and act to stop the genocide in Darfur. The words of President Lincoln speak to us from the ages: "[W]e cannot escape history. We, of this Congress...down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I yield back the remainder of my time. PREPARED STATEMENT OF THE HONORABLE...

...his lasl paragraph he struck for motives to move men. "Fellow-citizens. we cannot escape history, \Vc of this Congress and this administration, will be...significance or insignificance can spare one or another ol us. The fierv trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, lo the latest...

...December i862 revealed how in his mind military and the moral rationales collapsed into one another. "The fiery trial through which we pass, will light...down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation," the President said. "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike...