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“Every man, black, white or yellow, has a mouth to be fed and two hands with which to feed it, and that bread should be allowed to go to that mouth without controversy.
— Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States
Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Hartford, Connecticut (5 March 1860), Evening Press.
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