Lincoln, Abraham
1809-1865 56 years
1809-1865 56 years
President of the US, 1861-65
born Kentucky, moved to Illinois
parents were illiterate farmers, though father was
considered a fairly well off person.
mother died when Lincoln was 9, father remarried.
grandfather was scalped in an Indian raid
married into a slave owning family, 4 sons--1 to
Harvard
lawyer, Republican Party member
opposed slavery, Civil War president
wrote and said Gettysburg Address, famous now.
assasinated in Washington DC, buried in Illinois
born Kentucky, moved to Illinois
parents were illiterate farmers, though father was
considered a fairly well off person.
mother died when Lincoln was 9, father remarried.
grandfather was scalped in an Indian raid
married into a slave owning family, 4 sons--1 to
Harvard
lawyer, Republican Party member
opposed slavery, Civil War president
wrote and said Gettysburg Address, famous now.
assasinated in Washington DC, buried in Illinois
| America is one of the most cultured, and the latest country in the world, with a small history of three hundred years. But in three hundred years, twenty percent of America's presidents have been assassinated. Just that fact shows that America is barbarous. And strange to say that the twenty percent who have been assassinated include the best presidents America had – Abraham Lincoln and Kennedy. They do not assassinate phony characters like Jimmy Carter, and they will not assassinate Ronald Reagan. They fit with them. They are as much retarded as the common masses are. Abraham Lincoln does not fit. He is far above the retarded people... --Osho From Bondage to Freedom, ch. 10 |
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