Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and most sacred right – a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so many of the territory as they inhabit.
Abraham Lincoln
January 12, 1848.
I’m a big admirer of Abraham Lincoln. He was a good nationalist. He never intended what has happened to come about.
As for the inconsistency between what he said and his actions – nobody’s perfect.
– Daybreaker
The study that the Doctor from Harvard hid:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/the_downside_of_diversity/
He conducted the largest study of the effects of diversity, completed in 2000, and cited diversity as affecting all measures of civic health. He calls the effect on people as “hunkering down like a turtle”.
Most of us call it common sense.
“We the people, are the rightful master of both the Congress, and the courts. Not to overthrow the constitution, but to over-throw the men who have perverted it.” – Abraham Lincoln
Flanders