A short THREAD:
It is fitting that at this chaotic time, filled with pain and suffering, Americans remember that on November 19, 1863, President Lincoln gave a speech simply known as the Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln’s speech rings true today:
“Four score and seven 1/
It is fitting that at this chaotic time, filled with pain and suffering, Americans remember that on November 19, 1863, President Lincoln gave a speech simply known as the Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln’s speech rings true today:
“Four score and seven 1/
.years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can 2/
.long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger 3/
But, in a larger 3/
.sense, we can not dedicate--we can not consecrate--we can not hallow-- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can 4/
.never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-- that from these honored 5/
.dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, 6/
.by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
We always must remember what the men and women before us who fought and died for on these United States’ behalf. Trump and the GOP Congress seem to have forgotten. That we are all created equal & 7/
We always must remember what the men and women before us who fought and died for on these United States’ behalf. Trump and the GOP Congress seem to have forgotten. That we are all created equal & 7/
.we are a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Trump and the GOP Congress took an Oath which they have violated. They work for us, the people, not Trump or Putin.
On Nov 3rd, let’s save the republic, restore democracy and rule of law.
#Biden2020 8/end
On Nov 3rd, let’s save the republic, restore democracy and rule of law.
#Biden2020 8/end
