...which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time...weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men." Honoring our creed by ending slavery could alone save our country. "If it can't be saved upon that...

..."gave promise" not just to Americans, but "hope to the world" that "in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. (Cheers.)"5 The sincerity of some in the audience who cheered Lincoln's egalitarian sentiments might...

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...equality was economic "betterment," and that right was what Lincoln found first in the Declaration. "It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the...

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...the people of this country, but hope to the world . . . [hope] that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance." On this fourth day of July, 1962, we who are gathered at this same hall, entrusted with the fate and...

...politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.... It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the...