Waleed Shahid

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The interesting thing is that Lincoln's abolition of slavery and direct confrontation with the Southern oligarchy was anything but "moving past civil conflict." — PolitiTweet.org

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Thinking of this today: “Hearts are not relevant to the issue; neither racial affinities nor racial hostilities are rooted there. It is institutions...which are the ultimate molders of collective sentiments. Let these institutions be reconstructed today." -Bayard Rustin, 1965 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @chrislhayes: Yeah they all helped build this up for weeks and then months before they decided it had gone too far. https://t.co/p5DHLOm… — PolitiTweet.org

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@rachsyme "WITH THESE MITTENS" cc: @ninaturner — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rubycramer: Bernie’s mittens are made by Jen Ellis, a teacher from Essex Junction, Vt. She gave them to him 2+ years ago and was surpri… — PolitiTweet.org

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"If Joe Biden can truly speak to Republicans today, the temperature will cool down." Republicans: https://t.co/yLxhMcgXm7 — PolitiTweet.org

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@mo87mo87 https://t.co/fsrJlOZzMM — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AdamSerwer: Couldn’t agree more with this from @DKThomp. “Big, fast and simple.” https://t.co/b0761WqTs0 https://t.co/wiMXWS7e8D — PolitiTweet.org

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A lot of talk about "healing" today. But President Biden will be judged by his response to a series of generation-defining crises: public health, climate, inequality, racism, and, perhaps most of all, a GOP hell-bent on suppressing the will of a growing multiracial majority. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @democracynow: .@_waleedshahid of @justicedems says Joe Biden could be a transformative president, but needs to be pushed by social move… — PolitiTweet.org

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"Indeed, if compromise could possibly save the Union, the Union could easily be saved; but thanks to the spirit of tyrants, they want no compromise." — PolitiTweet.org

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"The occasion was one for honest rebuke, not for palliations and apologies. The slaveholders should have been told that their barbarous system of robbery is contrary to the spirit of the age." — PolitiTweet.org

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"The time and the occasion called for a very different attitude. Weakness, timidity and conciliation towards the tyrants and traitors had emboldened them to a pitch of insolence which demanded an instant check." — PolitiTweet.org

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"It was, therefore, weak, uncalled for and useless for Mr. LINCOLN to begin his Inaugural Address by thus at the outset prostrating himself before the foul and withering curse of slavery." — PolitiTweet.org

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"All know that the masses at the North (the power behind the throne) had determined to take and keep this Government out of the hands of the slave-holding oligarchy, and administer it hereafter to the advantage of free labor as against slave labor." — PolitiTweet.org

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"Any but a blind man can see that the disunion sentiment of the South does not arise from any misapprehension of the disposition of the party represented by Mr. LINCOLN." — PolitiTweet.org

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"Aside from the inhuman coldness of the sentiment, it was a weak and inappropriate utterance to such an audience, since it could neither appease nor check the wild fury of the rebel Slave Power." — PolitiTweet.org

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"Does he expose and rebuke the enemies of his country, the men who are bent upon ruling or ruining the country? Not a bit of it. But at the very start he seeks to court their favor, to explain himself where nobody misunderstands him." — PolitiTweet.org

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"Once in Washington, Mr. LINCOLN found himself in the thick atmosphere of treason on the one hand, and a cowardly, sentimental and deceitful profession of peace on the other." — PolitiTweet.org

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"The outgoing Administration, either by its treachery or weakness, or both, had allowed the Government to float to the very verge of destruction. Fear, amounting to agony in some minds, existed that the great American Republic would expire...the very moment of his inauguration." — PolitiTweet.org

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"The life of Mr. LINCOLN was believed, even by his least timid friends, to be in most imminent danger...he reached the Capital as the poor, hunted fugitive slave reaches the North...it is hard to think of anything more humiliating." — PolitiTweet.org

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Reading Frederick Douglass's response to President Lincoln's first inaugural address in 1861. "Threats of riot, rebellion, violence and assassination had been freely, though darkly circulated, as among the probable events to occur on that memorable day." — PolitiTweet.org

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Down with the traitors, up with the stars. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Trump Years: From Micro-Aggressions to Macro-Aggressions — PolitiTweet.org

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As an American, Trump committed many macro-aggressions against people who share this identity with me. — PolitiTweet.org

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I also love that Tucker used a terrifying photo of Jamaal here. https://t.co/mcQ0ZKOVbc — PolitiTweet.org

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Tucker Carlson calls @JamaalBowmanNY a "demagogue." Amazing stuff. https://t.co/7iqTuQ9OE6 — PolitiTweet.org

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I wonder what changed. 😉 https://t.co/AnEH4KUh71 — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/9OHgUFEBI7 — PolitiTweet.org

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OMG. — PolitiTweet.org