“I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. I will be in earnest. I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat an inch and I will be heard.”  -William Lloyd Garrison

TN state Rep. John Deberry Jr. gave an impassioned speech in defiance of the leftwing riots sweeping the nation.  I play an excerpt.

I read sections of Lincoln's Lyceum address from 1838.  It is stunningly relevant today.  Here's a stirring section:

"[Revolutionary War soldiers] were a forest of giant oaks; but the all-resistless hurricane has swept over them, and left only, here and there, a lonely trunk, despoiled of its verdure, shorn of its foliage; unshading and unshaded, to murmur in a few gentle breezes, and to combat with its mutilated limbs, a few more ruder storms, then to sink, and be no more."