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Greyhound

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Sun Jun-25-06 02:41 AM
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55. You are viewing their actions through 225+ years of social change

What we "know to be true" now would have been meaning then. Slavery was a controversial issue then and the revolution nearly didn't happen because of it. A compromise on slavery made the establishment of our country possible.

They were flawed human beings who literally staked their lives on accomplishing that which had never been done before in history, and thereby changed the world forever.

Who is there today that can compare?

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