Sam Sharpe: I would rather die on yonder gallows than live in slavery. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Karl Marx: The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

William Z. Foster: Like other spokesmen of the people, Lincoln was also the target of the most violent abuse, not the least of this coming from the very capitalist class which he was then leading to overwhelming victory. It is one of the ironies of history that the big capitalists of today, who are the supreme enemies of all democracy, can, although with tongue in cheek, cite the name of this great people’s leader as a champion of their class. wordsmith.social/protestation/…