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mschon's review
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The report correctly describes slavery as antithetical to the principles stated in the founding documents of the U.S., yet proceeds (in section V) to urge absolute obedience to all laws without regard for their morality. To support this idea, the authors included a passage from Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum speech, given in 1838 while slavery, an anti-American institution, was still lawful. So on one hand, slavery is anti-American, yet for one to disobey a law upholding slavery is, in Lincoln's words, "to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty". The report praises Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement but vilifies the very notion of civil disobedience which King embraced and which was key to the movement's success. The authors really didn't think this through very well.
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