IN LOVING MEMORY OF PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN [PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTE OF THE WEEK ~ SUNDAY APRIL 13, 2014 TO SATURDAY APRIL 19, 2014]

On this date, April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was passed away after being assassinated. Unit 1012 will post a quote from him and explain what it means.

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QUOTE: “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.” [Letter to Henry L Pierce and others (6 April 1859)]

AUTHOR: Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union, ending slavery, and rededicating the nation to nationalism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, he was mostly self-educated and became a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives, but failed in two attempts at a seat in the United States Senate. He was an affectionate, though often absent, husband, and father of four children.

EXPLANATION: Although Lincoln was referring to slavery, we chose this as a Pro-Death Penalty Quote. It reminds those murderers that they denied the freedom of lives of their victims, so they themselves do not deserve the freedom of their own lives.

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