part of that is houston and my goodness, part that is for frederick douglass as well as frederick douglass in abraham lincoln. abject poverty. lincoln, one year of formal schooling he learns to read learns write runs for office loses most the time, loses a senate race and, captures america's imagination, starts this new party at the perfect. the party splits enough for him to win with 5% of the vote and half the country voting for him ends up being arguably our best president. and when i talk about a in frederick douglass born in slavery, never knew his mom, never knew his dad, just determined to matter in life, got himself educated, overcame things i can't imagine reminds me of half luther king, malcolm x or third malcolm x up luther king and muhammad ali. he was privy active. he was direct. he was he was charming, was charismatic. and the guy had a inspirational. he ends up being his own editor, publisher a self-taught, charismatic speaker. i can't begin to tell. can't get my head around what he overcame to be this impactful player. one of the greatest americans ever that had every reaso

frederick douglass in august of 1863, even to the white house and confronts on these issues. and lincoln to douglass essentially black men will eventually get equal pay. i just politically can't do it yet. and as you might imagine if you know anything about frederick douglass, he was not altogether satisfied with that answer, but he did go away. that meeting with an appreciation lincoln treated him as a man, as an equal. shook his. welcomed him into his office. and that lincoln was under constraints. eventually, black men would equal pay, but it would take a year, some and more than a year for those who had been born into bondage. dr. medford set us up for this next letter. yes the pay issue was certainly most important thing that black men had to deal with. they had many other issues to contend. you know, the disease rate among black soldiers was higher than among white soldiers broken down equipment. all the rest but some of men were so frustrated by that, they actually stacked arms. they refused to fight or they didn't accept any pay at all. and those who stacked arms the l

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in buffalo-niagara, we walk in the foot stoaches frederick douglass, harriet tubman, dr.artin luther king jr., mary talbot, shirley chisholm and so many other civil rights leaders and in their spirit we march on. it was niagara falls that made buffalo the city of light. and while we've seen our share of darkness, buffalo is see regular surgence that generations only dreamt of. as a melting pot of ethnicities and cultures are helping to redefine our region and an economic renaissance has taken hold. we're a working class community with a belief in achieving a better life and the american dream through education, honest, hard work, and perseverance. i believe the character traits that define us in the buffalo, niagara region, are the same ideals held by all americans. i believe the hope we hold as a western new york community in achieving our greatest potential is shared equally by all communities across our country. i look forward to working with you to change our country for the better. i'm hopeful that we in this chamber can demonstrate leadership on a world stage that o

frederick douglass said if there is no struggle, there is no progress. the struggle may be moral and physical together but there is struggle. power is nothing without demand. it never has been and never will be. a message to you from the great frederick douglass a great maryland or from the 19th century. i leave you with the words of the great tom paine paine who my son tommy was named after. tom paine came to america in 1774, two years before the american revolution. he fell in love with the promise of america. he saw it immediately. an entire government based on the idea of a democratic self ruled and the rights and freedoms of the people. he said, if this land it up to its potential, it will become an asylum to humanity. not an insane asylum, mind you. ed asylum to humanity, a place of refuge for people's leading -- people fleeing religious, political, and economic oppression from all over the world. in 1776 he wrote common sense, the pamphlet that ignited the american revolution. he said common sense was the sense people have, even if they did not ge

frederick douglass said if there is no struggle, there is no progress. the struggle may be moral and physical together but there is struggle. power is nothing without demand. it never has been and never will be. a message to you from the great frederick douglass a great maryland or from the 19th century. i leave you with the words of the great tom paine paine who my son tommy was named after. tom paine came to america in 1774, two years before the american revolution. he fell in love with the promise of america. he saw it immediately. an entire government based on the idea of a democratic self ruled and the rights and freedoms of the people. he said, if this land it up to its potential, it will become an asylum to humanity. not an insane asylum, mind you. ed asylum to humanity, a place of refuge for people's leading -- people fleeing religious, political, and economic oppression from all over the world. in 1776 he wrote common sense, the pamphlet that ignited the american revolution. he said common sense was the sense people have, even if they did not ge

his book, the black hearts of men, won the frederick douglass book prize and. his book, giants the parallel lives of frederick douglass and abraham lincoln, was a national bestseller. this introduction could go on much, much longer, but it stops. there because it is a pleasure for me to welcome manisha sinha back to a to welcome john stauffer here for conversation and now over to manisha. thank you, scott, for that very generous introduction and i thank everyone who showed up here in the middle of the week to help me launch this book. i'd really like to begin by thanking all the staff at the american antiquarian society as scott just mentioned, i did much of my research for this book here in the archives and the whole world was shut down because of the pandemic. i had the privilege of being able to research this book, so i'm extremely grateful to the people at the american antiquarian society, and i think it's only appropriate that i'm launching this book here today. i thank nan will return for inviting me to do this program and i thank my good friend who in my

when i am having a bad day, and matching having a conversation with frederick douglass, explaining to him how difficult my day was. [laughter] imagine a maryland or, having a conversation with another marylander, harriet tubman. i have to tell you about my day today. and then see the look that she will give you. [laughter] we have to remember the historic context of the evolution of this country, the evolution of our states. and i think if we do that, we are willing to do what it was before us did, which is go through the work, not simply give up or retreat, then we are guiding ourselves to a better place. governor cox knows this story. in my first days as governor, the first trip i took outside was to western maryland. they were having a boil water advisory. they were having a water crisis, so i went to see the mayor out there who has turned into a friend. mayor colburn. when i first met him, he said, governor, do me a favor. turn 360 degrees. he said the only guarantee i can give you is you didn't see a democrat within five miles of anywhere that you looked. [laughter] but he said,

going back to frederick douglass back to the leaders in charge of the country in the middle of this centurymocratic ends. when you think about a liberal politician versus one that is not liberal like trump. john f. kennedy and martin luther king never tried to make it about themselves. they never encouraged such a thing. politicians like donald trump or vladimir putin make it all about them. only they can do it. in a liberal high dominance politician written's rhetoric. only a justice seeking people guided by a higher power or justice or providence itself can make a difference. the differences between democrats and the other politicians pursued dominance. >> there are literally a handful of people who no one follow donald trump is much as you have. these days, we are all donald trump experts but you are one before we became experts as well. so much ammunition and so much material on paper that it would take donald trump down and put them out of the fight and turn people against him. his base does not waver. around the edges it does but his base does not waver. people become dissatisfied wit

and need to engage in civil disobedience and then perhaps other struggles because power as frederick douglass put it, power doesn't give up on its own. i mean, know no struggle, no progress. yes. so i don't think you i think it would take out of a historical context to to just try to isolate certain behaviors and then try to decide, you know, whether are liberal or liberal or whatever you want to call them, rather than understand finding the larger frame in which there taking place. this is a more directly political and personal question. i just want to ask how different would your book be if you had written it. before 2016? well i probably wouldn't have. well, i don't know. i don't think it would be any different, to tell you the truth. the question is whether i would have been interested in writing it. you know, i had finished some projects. i mean, you know you can have this thing goes and you're kind of looking for something else to do. and you know, this kind of jumped up and i thought, i don't know. i mean, this this could be interesting to work on. i do not think the that this book eff

and also for a far more egalitarian reading of the constitutional order, as frederick douglass did, douglass, one of douglass's key, written, vocal and political accomplishments in the decade before the civil war, was to embrace the idea that there was an emancipate true potential in the american revolution and to kind of push that and to turn that, as it were, on on on his audience. what douglass understood it was that unless you could harness the the moral value of what douglass understood was that by harnessing the moral value of the revolution and that instinct to preserve it, he could most effectively advocate for the end of slavery. so really, the question then about preservation of the revolutionary settlement was not really about whether the federal constitution, the revolution was pro or anti-slavery, but about how much slavery it tolerated or unknown what in what circumstance says. so a lot of the debate in the in the period we're talking about in the run up to the civil war was about what had been the nature of the compromises that had been made back in the 7080s. now, of course,

for example, if i'm having a bad day i think to myself imagine having a conversation with frederick douglass and explaining to him how difficult my day was. imagine having a conversation with harriet tubman. imagine a true conversation saying, i just have to tell you about my day today. and then see the look that she will give you. we have to remember the historic context of the evolution of this country. of the evolution of our state's. i think we do that and we are willing to do with those who came before us did which is go do the work and not just simply give up or retreat that i think we are guiding ourselves to a better place. i remember one of my first days of governor the first trip i took outside was out to a place in western maryland. they were having a boil water advisory because they were having a water crisis. i went to see a guy named mayor colburn. when i first met him he said, governor, do me a favor. turn 360 degrees. so i turned. he said, the only guarantee i can give you is you did not see a democrat within five miles of anywhere you just looked. he said, but you know what,

. >> reporter: i'm a big believer in what frederick douglass said about literacy is freedom.of opportunities are available to them that wouldn't otherwise be. >> when i see them succeed, i know the world's going to be okay. >>> they're hoping to expand their efforts to get into even more schools. >> i love it, and i love to see how engaged the kids are in the reading, all the content. it's beautiful. >> and saying what they want to do when they grow up and they know they need to read to do those things. it's pretty inspirational. >> thanks, kate. >>> coming up, love, if you're hot, then you're cold, your yes, then your no. >> thank you, katy perry. you could be self-sabotaging >>> in today's mental health check we're talking about your love life. >> specifically something that people are talking a lot about on social media, self-sabotaging a romantic relationship. >> i'm afraid of being hurt, so these are the ways that i self-sabotage. >> self-sabotage. >> why self-sabotage. >> there's that word again and again. if you think you might be getting in the way of your own happine

curriculum identifies the writings of specific authors for example plato, catherine of siena and frederick douglass is indispensable for civic education. proponents of civic education then must fight against the choose your own adventure curriculum that dominates american higher education. second, civic education cannot thrive without a concern for character development that is properly associated with humanism. benjamin franklin famously responded to a woman who asked him what the constitutional convention of 1787 had produced with of the republic if you can keep it. franklin meant that he constitutional republic necessitates great intellectual and moral prerequisites among its citizens. the citizens needed to possess what the philosopher has called the constitutional personality. a system of higher education based on scientific and sentimental naturalism which cast aside character development would do a poor job at providing the u.s. with citizens of high character who possessed this constitutional personality. it is instead supplying america with what was called efficient megalomaniacs. [laughte

photograph and points to the sphinx and says, see that nose at your nose or tells me about frederick douglassand these were stories that only looking back did i realize were teaching me how to write, but they were also healing me healing me in advance, so they were actually arming me for, i think, the world that my father knew i would be going into. and then i had this mother. one day we're standing in the kitchen dating myself, making biscuits by hand, and he she had seen me reading voraciously, writing ptr attic where i had pd pictures from, life in look magazine and my books and solace in being alone and finding solace in writing stories. and she said to me, one day, you're going to write book and only back of was did i realize it in the kitchen that day i was baptize, but now i realize i was healed. and4& so there are many writers. of course, you know who feel me. i love, for example, alice courage, you know, the thing i learned from her about writing was your point person. you're an advance person for the hard, difficult. but my parents, they me. my first lessons about the power of stori

>> what trump is appealing to is what frederick douglass talked about in 1852.said there's a horrible reptile in the bosom of the nation. that reptile for him was slavery. it was a set of assumptions, not just black people but the superiority of white people to own black people. he said we must rip that reptile from our hearts. it's the central contradiction. it's a contradiction that eats at the entrance of the country and donald trump appeals to those hatreds, those old goes as president biden says. the old ghosts that has the nation by the throat. what do we do? jim wallis has a formulation in his book, the balls white gospel. we have to make the distinction between this people we must proceed and thus we must defeat. we often spend a lot of energy trying to persuade people who don't record you and i dignity and standing. they hold insidious views and not interested in being persuader. we have to understand the problems in front of us and not think of this in an abstract way. let's engage in politics close to the ground. let's stop looking to dcm look where w

frederick douglass, who was the most famous black journalists and the most respected of his time, his printing press was burned down. idb wells chased out of town for telling the truth. so this is this is a continuation of what black people have encountered throughout history when we have tried to tell the truth. but we can't do your so just kind of expanding on on that idea of you know the idea of of censorship ship across the board. do you feel or experience a sense of censorship when you approach a topic considering you know what the reaction to your work or maybe you don't and and why or why is that. well i don't know about them, but i'm every time i get a book contract, it's like, did they read my last book, i mean, i think it's always more difficult for for us, but somehow those of us here have have found ways to to be published. so i don't feel that my work been censored. in fact, i'm a little insulted that none of my books on a book i said i might my books, except i said that the other night i can't i don't want my books to be banned feel a sense of censorship at all. i you kn

. >> first of all, what trump is appealing to is what frederick douglass talked about in july 5 of 1852umptions, not just necessarily about black people but about the superiority of white people to own black people and he said we must rip that reptile from our hearts. but you know, it's the central contradiction. it's the contradiction that eats at the entrails of the country and donald trump is appealing to those grievances, those hatreds, those old ghosts, as president biden said, those old ghosts that have the nation by the throat. so what do we do? jim wallis has this wonderful formulation in his book, the false white gospel. he says we have to make a distinction between those people we must persuade and those people we must defeat. we often times spend a lot of our energy trying to persuade people who really don't accord you and i dignity and standing. they hold noxious and insidious views. they're not interested in being persuaded, so what you and i have to do is understand the problems right in front of us, not to think of this in some abstract way. i use this phrase over and ove

i think part of what we're dealing with is what frederick douglass called, joe, the horrible reptiley, and we have refused to tear away the serpent and it is eating the nation's entrails. >>> coming up, pulitzer prize winning historian doris kearns goodwin and her new book, "an unfinished love story" about her late husband. "morning joe" will be right back. back ( ♪ ♪ ) start your day with nature made. the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand. (♪♪) i'm getting vaccinated with pfizer's pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine. so am i. because i'm at risk for pneumococcal pneumonia. come on. i already got a pneumonia vaccine, but i'm asking about the added protection of prevnar 20®. if you're 19 or older with certain chronic conditions like asthma, diabetes, copd, or heart disease, or are 65 or older, you are at increased risk for pneumococcal pneumonia. prevnar 20® is approved in adults to help prevent infections from 20 strains of the bacteria that cause pneumococcal pneumonia. in just one dose. don't get prevnar 20® if you've had a severe allergic reaction to the vaccine or