Lincoln vs Douglass: should freedom come by law or by conscience?

LINCOLN vs DOUGLASS go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

LINCOLN

I bound my hands with the Constitution, Frederick, and freed four million only when the Union could survive the shock.

DOUGLASS

Mr. President, the slave did not ask to survive your timing—power concedes nothing without a demand, and I made mine loudly.

LINCOLN

And I turned your demand into law that armies enforced; a proclamation without a nation behind it is only ink.

DOUGLASS

Then remember whose voices put steel in that ink—I would rather be the conscience that will not wait than the caution that almost did.

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