“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
‘The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running… all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the ole cattle prod in case a few want to bolt the herd. ”
Purportedly stated by James Carvillle, Democrat Political Consultant
“When men cease to believe in God, they don’t believe in nothing, but anything.”
Commonly attributed to G.K. Chesterton
The American Civil War – which my ancestors fought, in some measure, to free fellow human beings from slavery – resulted in over one million dead and wounded. This out of a population of approximately 35 million people. By way of comparison to our present demographics, think ten million dead relative to today’s population. Of course, while slavery may arguably not have been the major cause of the war, and historians have a range of opinion as to the strength of the contribution of this specific issue to the war, suffice to say slavery was at least one of the causes of the war, which was, in turn, the result of a moral blot on the soul of the country. To put it baldly, racially based slavery, led to some form of judgment against the American polity of the 1800s. Slavery certainly violated everything from the tenets of the Constitution to the ethics of a Christian nation. We may reasonably conclude that racism in and of itself is intrinsically wrong – or to put it more plainly, a moral evil - and that there were repercussions for this egregious violation of fundamental human values.
