"I like to believe that for Lincoln it was never a matter of abandoning conviction for the sake of expediency,” Obama writes. “Rather . . . that we must talk and reach for common understandings, precisely because all of us are imperfect and can never act with the certainty that God is on our side.”
That's from the New Yorker. You can read the whole (wonderful) article here:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/07/070507fa_fact_macfarquhar
Thanks, Zeile!
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