massachusetts and general and boston was a hotbed of abolitionist sentiment. and he had very much wanted to pull together a true -- a troop or regiment of african-american soldiers. so he looked to many of the most prominent abolitionists in the massachusetts area and boston specifically to form what was called a black committee which consisted of not only noted african-american abolitionists such as frederick douglass, but also white abolitionists, such as wendell phillips or george luther stern. they formed the black committee and started to rally support around the idea of forming a regiment of african-americans. they got together a group of recruiters, and a long this wall here, we have pictures of many of the men and women who spread out across the north seeking african-americans to join the regiment. at the time, during the civil war, each state would put forth a regiment of soldiers. so you would have the 110th new york regiment. or the 20th massachusetts regiment. that means that all of the soldiers from that regiment came from massachusetts or new yor

spotlightt 60 shine a on the group of abolitionists. >> good morning. i am the senior curator here at the national gallery of art. i am the co-curator of this exhibition. augustus saint gaudens began to work on this memorial in 1883. initially, he was going to make it a monument just dedicated to shaw himself. if you look at some of the examples we have in the case behind you you will see that one of his first ideas for the monument was to depict colonel robert gould shaw on a horse. that kind of depiction is often referred to as the man on the mount. however, colonel shaw's family objected to that. they thought such a depiction was too grand a way to show their young son. he was, after all, only 25 years old when he was killed at the battle of fort wagner. they thought that depiction was better reserved for generals and not a colonel. shaw's family thought it would be more appropriate to show him with his troops. so saint-gaudens went back to the drawing board literally and came up with this conception with the idea of putting shaw surrounded by his tr

he is not an abolitionist after the war. he has a much more ambivalent attitude towards the confederates and the returning confederates. lionizeicular reason to lincoln. that was not his style. he wrote a lot of affectionate tributes to people on their deaths or remembering them and said some nice things about his but praise was not strong suit. i can see he had an attitude towards linking of increasing detachment. holmes himself- was the son of a very famous father at the time. -- father catalyzed capitalize by writing a very famous story. i know you can make too much of the story and his struggle to escape his father's shadow. this createdthat an estrangement between him and his father? or maybe put a distance between his father who was an ardent abolitionist before and after the war and holmes was not? >> it could well be. es' referred to holme' love-hate relationship between his colleagues in college. i think he probably did have this ambivalent relationship with his father. on the one hand, it was a close relationship,

he is not an abolitionist after the war. he has a much more ambivalent attitude towards the confederates and the returning confederates. no particular reason to lionize lincoln. that was not his style. he wrote a lot of affectionate tributes to people on their deaths or remembering them and said some nice things about them, but praise was not his strong suit. i can see he had an attitude towards linking of increasing detachment. >> dr. holmes -- holmes himself was the son of a very famous father at the time. his father capitalized by writing a very famous story. i know you can make too much of the story and his struggle to escape his father's shadow. do you think that this created an estrangement between him and his father? or maybe put a distance between his father who was an ardent abolitionist before and after the war and holmes was not? >> it could well be. jim referred to holmes' love-hate relationship between his colleagues in college. i think he probably did have this ambivalent relationship with his father. on the on

the difference between garrison and most abolitionists is most abolitionists believe that can be done by mere congressional statute. the constitution does allow those. but it's the same project. it just thinks it has to be done by constitutional amendment. it's odd to think he is proposing a series of constitutional amendments to do this bullet -- but not a 13th 13th amendment no amendment to absolutely abolish slavery. the way they're thinking is the states will do this on their own when, once they're surrounded, it will dawn on them, they've lost the kind of artificial support that the federal government gives them by constantly allowing them to expand, by protecting slavery and protecting runaway slaves and that sort of thing. the assumption all along is that the thing that is going to have to happen is to get the federal government to position itself so the states will resume the process of abolishing slavery on their own. so i don't think even abolitionists assumed that -- if that is right, if douglass -- if garrison is saying, this is the way it's going to be done, then not with

he is not an abolitionist after the war. he has a much more ambivalent attitude towards the confederates and the returning confederates. no particular reason to lionize lincoln. and lionization wasn't holmes's style. he wrote a lot of affectionate tributes to people on their deaths or remembering them and said some nice things about them, but praise was not his strong suit. so i can imagine his having an attitude toward linking of -- lincoln of increasing detachment over the years. >> one last thing of dr. host -- holmes came up. one thing we haven't established is holmes himself was the son of a very famous father at the time. his father capitalized by writing a very famous story. the hunt after the captain and i know you can make too much of this struggle to escape his father's shadow, but do you think that this created at least an estrangement between holmes and his father or at least put a distance between them, that his father, who was an ardent abolitionist before and after the war and holmes was not? that this caused

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before the massacre, sole lived in bleeding, kansas, where as asigh lie of john brown he was an abolitionist jay fight it hawker. he refused to commit the troops er under him to the fight at sand creek and he later wrote to a friend of his, a former norabl commander, nede winecoop he saidhat nati it sullied the fight for the union and also the process of settling the west. and that native and not white bodies desecrated there. world o soule depicted a world of civilized indians and savage whites cataloged the terrible bodies cruelties visited upon the sand creek dead. and the bodies of men, women and children he said had all been hacked apart.e woul he wrote to winecoop quote they d that he would think it impossible for white men to butcher and mutilate human beings as they did there.+++tsda federal official looking into sand creek wrote " the barber is in the slavery has come unaided assassination of mr. lincoln. the barbarism of centrica is commented in the assassination of captain soule,' this was a statement that foreshadowed some abolitionists decision to gravitate toward the indian ref

them black because the critique favored the first and march of 75 was real and that led to the abolitionist society in the new world. he was fundamentally committed to the critique of white supremacy very rare often times among the highly visible white intellectuals. rick wolff is rare, eric voter is rare. we can call the list because the list is so short. [laughter] and i'm not just talking about making a symbolic gesture but committed to the analysis of flight the supremacists is a factor among other crucial factors and then you make the organic connection. that is the kind of brother that thomas payne was coming and it's very difficult to build on his legacy even though we have to acknowledge just how crucial that challenge is. >> i want to pick up on something that you just did when laura was still speaking before we started. she asked how much change was needed or some words to that effect, and it was a strong, clear statement. then she asked about revolution. much less strong. much more wobbly. now, thomas paine is exactly about that difference. just as the name of the conference, the

he never belonged to an abolitionist party. so do you think john brown did the right thing by hurling his entire life and his family against slavery? he did. >> the position that you chose, two presidents who are commanders in chief, who signed laws, bills into law and abide by, not in all circumstances but expected to abide by the rule of law, something that you have often flaunted in -- >> both presidents were responding to movements that didn't abide by the rule of law. the black freedom movement broke the law consistently and that was part of the strength and beauty of it and the black freedom movement grew and evolved every minute, every day. the kind of store we tell about it is mainly not true. but the push for equality, the push for participation was something that was magnificent and that was coming from below and much of it was against the law. lincoln was responding -- >> we happen to be in a revolutionary america. i would call it the spirit of 11 1776. the law of the british brown and established a revolutionary cou

commented in the assassination of captain soule,' this was a statement that foreshadowed some abolitionists decision to gravitate toward the indian reform movement in the years after the passage of the 13th amendment. three federal investigations eventually determined that sand creek had been a bad act and one of them call that a massacre. and othersgton refused to accept those findings. because sand creek are presented and unsettled chapter in the region's history, the fight over its memory continued for years after. hunt79, author helen jackson embraced the cause of unity death -- of indian reform. letters to newspapers around the united states, she drew on silas soule's recollections of sand creek and use the massacre as a cudgel. creek hads at sand been peaceful and guarantee protection by federal authorities andshivington's troops had desecrated the dead. her charges rankled william byers, the editor of the rocky mountain news in 18 624. he had dismissed claims that sand creek had been a massacre. 1879, he ignored the ongoing indian wars. he replied to jackson that sand creek had pacif

said the idea among the abolitionists was that they could provide a way to remove part of the populationt it would be more palatable to the south to accept the freedom of slaves. so they're also a group of slaveholders who supported it for basically the same reason. they felt that it was inevitable that emancipation was going to come to pass in that this was a way to remove a large population of free blacks. he wasn't totally egalitarian in its approach. as a crowd couldn't free the slaves. in the second free that group without legislative approval, which would not have been forthcoming. he felt this is the best chance they had to control their destiny and his starter rick reid. he wanted to keep them in place and tell her day at which time it would be like to immigrate. the grandson contested the will of massenet, started. i was afraid with the young guy, in his early 20s at the time it didn't like the idea of selling the families plantation in giving the money to the slaves and free them. so he contested the well. duet back-and-forth and eventually made its way to the mississippi supre

about the death penalty, for states that are t not -- haven't been executing and have de facto abolitionist states, that can make the difference. we can't get the drugs to do it. people are paying attention to that, and then the state's response to the shortage is exacerbating the very tension that austin is talking about. what are the states' response? secrecy. we won't tell you the drugs we're using or the sources so you can look and see if they're regulated or they have a fungus in them like the one that cost over 60 people their lives in 2012. secrecy. speed. missouri has executed people while they're -- a federal court is still reviewing their appeals, and the substitutes, the unregulated substitutes. so it's changing the nature of the conversation about the death penalty in the united states sort of from this oh, well, look what the offender did, which has always been there, to, yeah, look at the extent that the state is willing to sacrifice due process values to get their pound of flesh. >> professor lee chance, we just have a few seconds left. does this explain to you what professor

before the massacre, sole lived in bleeding, kansas, where as asigh lie of john brown he was an abolitionist jay fight hawker. he refused to commit the troopsr under him to the fight at sand creek and he later wrote to a friend of his, a former norabl commander, nede winecoop, he si it sullied the fight for the union and also the process of settling the west. and that native and not white bodies desecrated there. world o soule depicted a world of civilized indians and savage whites, cataloged the terrible s cruelties visited upon the sand creek dead. and e bodies of men, women and children he said had all been hacked apart.e woul he wrote to winecoop, quote, thd that he would think it impossible for white men to butcher and mutilate human beings as they did there.+++tsdo isd creek wrote " the barber in the slavery has come unaided assassination of mr. lincoln. the barbarism of centrica is commented in the assassination of captain soule,' this was a statement that foreshadowed some abolitionists decision to gravitate toward the indian reform movement in the years after the passage of the 13th

at a meeting in wisconsin in march of 1854 abolitionists expressed the alarm into the nebraska territoryof the republican party this is march of 1854. many statehouses as well the circus promoter pt barnum himself was elected as a republican to the connecticut statehouse and in 1860 just six short years after the republican party was founded, the republican abraham lincoln was elected to the white house. while the republican party started as an idea driven and committed the party is an established political party both political parties and ideologies are far less important than party politics. they motivate and invigorate the grassroots in contrast to the two political parties of the conservative movement is and always has been an idea driven movement. conservatism has several important and intellectual pillars. if you follow the mainstream media you can probably rattle those off and the mainstream media would say racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, economic inequality and militarism and a president obama personifies the viewpoint when they cling onto their guns and religion this is

they only sent free blacks, not slaves, and the abolitionists were dead against it. they saw it as a way of getting rid of african-americans, and not even sending them back to africa because they were born here. it was a very controversial endeavor that he was front and center on for many decades. he had aher hand, reputation, well deserved, for representing free blacks and slaves in the courts in washington for free, which he did. would slaves get in courts in washington? a slave would be brought here from a slave state to washington, d.c., which had maryland laws, by the way, back then, and maryland had a law that if a slave was brought here they couldor a year, be free, and who did they go to? they went to frank t -- frank key, and he represented. he had a mixed record. the other thing is his brother-in-law was roger b. tawn y, who later issued the infamous dred scott decision, which said that african-americans had no rights whatsoever. you cannot get away from this, but you also cannot get away from the fact that is one night, when the bombs were bursting in , th

the republican party as an abolitionistç of the american party and other anti-slavery groups.in wisconsin in marchçç 1854. far less important than party politics. even though ideas motivated and integrated the grass roots. the conservative movement is and always has been an idea driven movement. conservatism has several important intellectual pillars. if you follow the mainstream media you can probably rattle those off in the mainstream media would say racism, sexism, xenophobia, economic inequality and militarism. president obama personified this when he talked during the first presidential campaign about small-town americans, and i quote, who cling onto their guns and religion or have antipathy toward the people that are not like them. but this isn't what conservatism is about. the conservative movement is not about people who refuse to embrace progress and have been left behind. the movement is about the people that hold on tight to their core principles and hold essential truths that are needed to save our beloved nation from tierney. we all know what the corridors of th

this is why the abolitionist john brown established a supply depot there and met with frederick douglass to discuss the harpers ferry plan in 1859. some argued chambersburg was just one of several towns in the region that is received visits from early and threats of demand for money and surprisppls the reason chambersburg was burned with that they did not comply. others have argued that the decision was rooted in previous insurance. after all, the confederates had been in chambersburg twice before. in october 1862, confederate albury visited -- confederate calvary visited town and one of their famous or circumvented of the union army. they burned buildings belonging to the warehouse and a store house containing more material. they returned this time with robert e lee. in late june 1863, 60,000 confederate soldiers began to leeert in chambersburg, and established his headquarters there. he town escaped large-scale thisraction at point much due to lee's 73. menake war only upon armed and that no greater disgrace should befall an army and through it our people bandy perpetration of the barb

here is someone who detest the abolitionist really is a southerner in his heart not a big deal for himthe realizing with the missouri compromise you will raise one hell of a storm. so they do proceed in a patron of the kansas nebraska act. in to use the power of the political newspapers he is barely able to get it passed in the house and the senate. budding chances they will try fraud and intimidation from the cadences territory. with a statewide offices for the legislative offices and congress is a a territory to set up a major crisis for the civil war. this sets up the democratic party from the north with the whig another third party committed to prevent slavery expansion in the west yvette former democrats will join together to form the republican party and they are opposed to this act of middle-aged lawyer by the name of abraham lincoln kill his lifelong dream to be president but he serves his term in congress years ago returned to your practicing law and the relatively unhappy home life the way through a midlife crisis did i make the right decision or pick the right job for very t

named for the 19th century abolitionist, it was for young migrants. with strong backing from evangelical groups, the house and the senate passed it unanimously. it said only children from mexico or canada can legally be turned around and sent home. the rest, coming from south america, get it tell an immigration judge whether they're victims of abuse or crime. if possible, they are reunited with a family member. the white house and it's allies say this law, combined with soaring crime and violence in central america, are the roots of the problem. it has tied their hands when it comes to dealing with the current wave of children. take a look at this. according to government records published in the los angeles times. deportation of mines or peaked in 2008 and declined after that. and then it really took off in 2008. and the bottom line, most children coming from central america will end up staying in the u.s. for years while their cabses make their way through the legal system. so regardless of whether its true, it's this lacking time that's helping to

this is why the abolitionist john brown established a supply depot there and met with frederick douglass to discuss the harpers ferry plan in 1859. some argued chambersburg was just one of several towns in the region that is received visits from early and threats of demand for money and surprisppls the reason chambersburg was burned with that they did not comply. others have argued that the decision was rooted in previous insurance. after all, the confederates had been in chambersburg twice before. in october 1862, confederate albury visited -- confederate calvary visited town and one of their famous or circumvented of the union army. they burned buildings belonging to the warehouse and a store house containing more material. they returned this time with robert e lee. in late june 1863, 60,000 confederate soldiers began to leeert in chambersburg, and established his headquarters there. he town escaped large-scale thisraction at point much due to lee's 73. menake war only upon armed and that no greater disgrace should befall an army and through it our people bandy perpetration of the barb

born into slavery around 1818, he became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. on july 5, 18 52 in rochester, new york, he gave one of his most famous speeches, the meaning of july 4 for the negro. he was addressing the rochester ladies anti-slavery society. this is james earl jones reading the historic address or -- during ace performance. he was introduced by howard zinn. >> frederick douglass, once a slave, became her brilliant and powerful leader of the anti-slavery movement. speak2, he was asked to in celebration of the fourth of july. >> fellow citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am i called upon to speak here today? what have i, or those i represent, to do with your national independence? are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that declaration of independence, extended to us? and am i, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us? i am not included within the pale o

named for a 19th century british abolitionist, it broadened legal protections for young migrants thanks to bipartisan support and strong backing from evangelical groups the house and senate passed it unanimously. it says only children from mexico or canada can can be turned around and sent home. they get a chance to tell an immigration judge whether they were the victims of abuse, or a crime. during that process, they have to be held in the at least restrictive setting available, and if possible reunited with a family member. >> the white house and it's allies say this law combined with soaring crime and violence in central america, not lax border enforcement are the root of the problem, may say it has tied their hands when it comes to dealing with the current wave of children. take a look at this, according to government records published in the los angeles time, deportation of miners folked in 2008, and plummeted after that then this' this, the backlog in the nation's immigration courts which really took off back in 2008. and the bottom line is that most children coming from central a

boehner, and he opposed gun control, opposed federal aid to education, bus he was descended from abolitionists and a die hard supporter of civil rights, and in the summer of 1963 as president kennedy proposed the bill, there was a deal with the kennedy justice department in the white house that if they would promise not to water it down in the senate as it happened in 1957 and 1960, if they promised to give the republicans equal credit, he'd use the clout with the kau cause to passed bill, and, of course that was necessary because the democrats were split and the southerners were opposed to the bill, and it had the affect of forcing the kennedy administration and johnson add mgs to attempt something never succeeded, which was to break a filibuster on the senate. this one man, and people, as in the know, as the attorney general, and kennedy are on record saying he thought at the end of the day, he was the single most important force in getting the actual legislation passed. i mean, it has a thousand fathers of the legislation, fathers and mothers, and someone said they discussed the questions w

very often they refer to themselves as the new abolitionists trying to draw a parallel between the opposition to abortion and the opposition of antebellum evangelicals to the spirit of slavery into so it makes a great story. but there is actually a bit of fiction can't quite a bit of fiction and fact. abortion for evangelicals simply wasn't an issue. they were considered a catholic issue for most of the 1970s. let me provide a bit of evidence. i won't be able to get all of it but to give you a sense in 1969, the christianity today magazine which was kind of the flagship magazine of evangelicalism convened a conference in the society to talk about abortion as a moral issue. after the conference was over, they issued a statement saying we can't agree that abortion is a moral issue but we are inclined to allow abortion under certain circumstances. 1971 the southern baptist convention which i'm sure many of you know is what we doubt of liberalism passed a resolution meeting in st. louis missouri calling for the legalization of abortion. the resolution they reaffirm in 1974 a year after the ruling

cousins who would stay with her in boston, he game part of the william lloyd garrison group of abolitionists in boston, and i have a friend who is writing a book that looks at that relationship. so that's just one example of how judith really empowered the next generation of young women. she also empowered the next generation as american writers. this is at a time when american writing was looked down on. if it wasn't european, if it wasn't ancient, it wasn't good. so as an american writer, she was given a lot of credit by the next generation of writers, and especially women writers. sally wood from maine, maine's first woman novelist among them credited her with opening the door for people like her, to be able to write and use their name. and so that's where she had a lot of influence on other women and provided -- she was the support system for a lot of these people. in terms of her close, personal friends, the women she wrote to, and she had a number of close -- she had two very close female friends. the letters are all about family. it's the men who were her close friends, like her cousi

and that's the kind of talk that usually comes from abolitionists or progressives.inski say, look, we better face the brutality of capital punishment, that's a moment of great significance. that should not be lost in what followed in his recommendation about the firing squad. look, there is no foolproof technology for putting people to death. >> and there's a connection between those two, right? because what he's saying is you need to face up to the brutality. if you as a society have decided that you are going to engage in a punishment that is brutal, then go look straight into the dark heart of the brutality that it is and don't try to essentially medicate it away by making sure you do it in a, quote, quiet and serene way. there's a crazy scalia point, he talks about the serenity of quietly falling asleep into death. you know, which gets to the point that there's a denial, i think, about a lot of americans about what exactly we're doing when we're doing this, dahlia. >> well, and it's so exacerbated, chris, because we want it to look like it's just a dental proced

his ancestors had been abolitionists before the civil war, and as a young man out of law school at ohioe to practice down in jacksonville florida and was appalled by jim crow segregation, and made it his business to become a strong supporter of federal civil rights legislation. >> ifill: it was easy to look at the way things happen on capitol hill now and the way they happened then, and you have to think to yourself, where does a bill mccolloch get the room to run, to be that kind of advocate? >> yeah i mean he had a population in his district that was 2.7% black, but he had something else, which was the republican party in those days still took very seriously its legacy as the party of lincoln and the party of civil rights. and remember that for most of the 20th century, to the degree that either party was paying attention to civil rights, it really was the republicans. most black people in the south were republicans. so mccolloch made a deal with the kennedy administration when he proposed the bill. he said, "if you promise not to water this down in the senate, as had been the usual p

boehner, and he opposed gun control, opposed federal aid to education, bus he was descended from abolitionists and a die hard supporter of civil rights, and in the summer of 1963 as president kennedy proposed the bill, there was a deal with the kennedy justice department in the white house that if they would promise not to water it down in the senate as it happened in 1957 and 1960, if they promised to give the republicans equal credit, he'd use the clout with the kau cause to passed bill, and, of course that was necessary because the democrats were split and the southerners were opposed to the bill, and it had the affect of forcing the kennedy administration and johnson add mgs to attempt something never succeeded, which was to break a filibuster on the senate. this one man, and people, as in the know, as the attorney general, and kennedy are on record saying he thought at the end of the day, he was the single most important force in getting the actual legislation passed. i mean, it has a thousand fathers of the legislation, fathers and mothers, and someone said they discussed the questions w

it was a wealthy english woman abolitionist who put up the oney to purchase the freedom of frederick douglass who was a fugitive slave up until then. during the civil war, the great karl marx led the fight against the english dock workers who refused to unload ships made by slave labor. antiracism -- antiracist solidarity is basic to a orking-class solidarity. our party -- it's been a long time. our party will never forget what communist and workers parties did in the fight to save angela davis. long live international long live international solidarity. workers and oppressed people of the world unite. our unity is our strength. comrades, many parties have sent in wonderful greetings to our convention. we are especially delighted to have our many international guests who have joined us. many traveling thousands of miles to be with us. a number of other parties were blocked by the state department. the cubans sent in their application. they didn't say no. they just hid the visa. nothing came out of it. why are they so scared? i thought we were irrelevant? what are they scared of? [app

named for a 19th century abolitionist, the law broadened legal protection for migrants, thanks to bipartisanupport and strong backing from evangelical groups, the house and senate passed it unanimously. it said only children from mexico and canada can immediately be turned around and sent home. the rest like the thousands now coming from central america get a chance to tell an immigration judge whether they were the victims of abuse or a crime. during the process, they have to be held in the least restrictive setting available and if possible, reunited with a family member. the white house and it allies say this law combined to soaring violence in central america, not lax border enforcement are the roots of the problem. they say it has tied their hands dealing with the current wave of children. according to government records, published in the los angeles times, deportation of minors peeked in 2008, and plummet the of the after that. then there's the backlogs in the nation's immigration courts which took off in 2008. most children will end up staying in the u.s. for years while their cases m

the british parliamentarian and abolitionist who abolished slavery famously told his colleagues as i they will house and administration, having heard all of this, you may choose to look the other way. but you can never again, you can never again say you did not know. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from south carolina, r. duncan, for five minutes. mr. duncan: mr. speaker, on june 26, south carolina and the united states lost a hero. sergeant bob reezer in was a world war ii united states army air corps veteran and tail gunner asiped to the 68th squadron with the famous 44th bomber group known as the flying eight balls. the event of december 7, 1941 compelled him to serve in world war ii. survived three life threatening missions, a year in german p.o.w. camps, 2 1/2 years in a hospital undergoing multiple surgeries from his injuries. during his military career, he participated in 21 successful bombing missions over germany and france. during the return flight of one

but is there reason why in this country of a couple of hundred years ago both slave owners and abolitionistwould use the same flyable -- bible but the exact same obverses that is the power of scripture. in the institutionalized the june in which there was the authority structure that has a complete monopoly for if the interpretation did you can maintain a level of control. they actually say to catholic theologians you are wrong and your interpretation is incorrect if you continue to pursue that interpretation of will excommunicate you and you are the long drought part of this community -- community there is nothing like that with islam ordure days them or centralized religious authority. so that means anything goes. anything is no valid because there is no one to say you are wrong or you are right. so it is a great shoutings match to keep their loud but today's them and is gone but there are 15 million jews soout the argument that is happening not at the same global stage as 1.5 billion muslims public at the complex of the middle east the autocrats and fighting against each other in the mus

reason why in this country's history just a couple of hundred years ago both slave owners and abolitionists not only used the same bible to argue their differing viewpoints, they used the exact same verses to argue their different view poips. that's the -- viewpoints. that's the power of scripture, that's the power of religion. now, in an institutionalized religion, one in which there is a papacy, what have you, whatever you want to call it, that has a complete monopoly over the interpretation of faith, then you can maintain a level of control. i mean, the pope can actually say to a catholic theologian you are wrong. your interpretation is incorrect, and, indeed, if you continue to pursue your interpretation, i will excommunicate you, and you are no longer a part of this community. there is nothing like that in islam or in judaism, for that matter. there is no centralized religious authority. and what that means is that thinking goes. any interpretation is now a valid interpretation. there is no one, there's no referee. there's no one to say you're wrong and you're right. and so it becomes

the republican party as an abolitionistç of the american party and other anti-slavery groups.in wisconsin in marchçç 1854. far less important than party politics. even though ideas motivated and integrated the grass roots. the conservative movement is and always has been an idea driven movement. conservatism has several important intellectual pillars. if you follow the mainstream media you can probably rattle those off in the mainstream media would say racism, sexism, xenophobia, economic inequality and militarism. president obama personified this when he talked during the first presidential campaign about small-town americans, and i quote, who cling onto their guns and religion or have antipathy toward the people that are not like them. but this isn't what conservatism is about. the conservative movement is not about people who refuse to embrace progress and have been left behind. the movement is about the people that hold on tight to their core principles and hold essential truths that are needed to save our beloved nation from tierney. we all know what the corridors of th