“What have you asked the black men of the South, the black men of the whole country, to do? Why, you have asked them to incur the deadly enmity of their masters, in order to befriend you and to befriend this Government. You have asked us to call down, not only upon ourselves, but upon our children’s children, the deadly hate of the entire Southern people. You have called upon us to turn our backs upon our masters, to abandon their cause and espouse yours; to turn against the South and in favor of the North.”
1860s, What the Black Man Wants (1865)
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Frederick Douglass274
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John Lewis (civil rights leader) (1940) American politician and civil rights leader
For some, he concluded, this vote may be hard. But we have a mission and a mandate to be on the right side of history. <br class="br">Source: Quoted in Impeachment is Over, But Don’t Despair by Diallo Brooks, CounterPunch https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/07/impeachment-is-over-but-dont-despair/, (7 Feb 2020)
John Lewis (civil rights leader) (1940) American politician and civil rights leader
Source: Twitter https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/1211661167728480256, (18 December 2019)
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Second Speech at Frederick, Maryland (4 October 1862)
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al-Suyuti, Dur al-Manthur, vol.7, p. 7 ; ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Tafsir al-Tabari, vol.5, p. 16 ; al-Fakhr al-Razi, al-Tafsir, vol.7, p. 406 ; ibn Hajar al-Haythami, al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah, p. 102 ; Muhibbuddin al-Tabari, Dhakha‘ir al-Uqba, p. 25 ; al-Shablanji, Nur al-Absar, p. 100.
Sunni Hadith