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Saturday, June 27, 2015

A Jefferson Quote

Powerful words that echo down to the debates of today. 

Yes, Jefferson was a slave owner and a hypocrite, a man whose intellect demanded freedom for all while his greed and social standing kept others in chains. Such is human nature.

He was a political leader, not a Saint.

 But I think, if he had been removed from his specific moment in time, that he would have eventually married that intellectual ideal with practical reality.

That's the sign of a Great Man I guess: the ability to have even your sins serve as an example for the ages.

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