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It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#armstrong #benny #carter #duke #duke ellington

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#congress #constitution #courts #masters #men

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#cause #deter #fail #just #may

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#bears #found #fruits #i #justice

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#being #business #compromise #discourage #enough

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#duty #end #faith #let us #lets

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#heart #help #right #who

We must have black troops, and a limitless number of them too - paid and treated like their white brothers. ↗

— Benjamin Lincoln

#brothers #like #limitless #must #number

But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#ago #away #cape #died #done

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#pursuit #source #such #truth