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Re-watching “Gettysburg.” Struck by Chamberlain’s speech to some mutineers - “We are here for something new… we are an army set to set men free.. no man has to bow. No man born to royalty - here we judge you by what you do not by who your father was…. It’s the idea that we all have value.”

David Simmons

@frdavid.org

3 July

In a week where SCOTUS narrowly kept birthright citizenship as a constitutional imperative, we need to hear this.

David Simmons

@frdavid.org

At a time where government officials are making claims that citizenship should only be given to those whose ancestors were here at the time of the civil war, remember that during the war, men like Lawrence were fighting for the rights of enslaved African Americans and hated Irish immigrants.

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David Simmons

@frdavid.org

3 July

True American patriotism and blood-and-soil politics are opposites.