With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Lincoln calls for reconciliation and care for the wounded after the Civil War.
- In plain terms
- He asks everyone to be kind and heal the nation.
- What can you take from it?
- Reconciliation and care heal a nation.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you heal after conflict?
- What does charity look like today?
Another view
Reconciliation is hard when wounds are deep.
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