(Andrew Carnegie)

“He funded the building of over 3,000 public libraries in 47 states and many more overseas, along with numerous hospitals, universities, scientific-research efforts, and artistic institutions. Concerned about the well-being of his former workers, he founded a pension company that later became the giant financial-services non-profit TIAA/CREF. He also aided many projects sponsored by Booker T. Washington to help African Americans, including the Tuskegee Institute and the National Negro Business League.”

Carnegie an industrial giant who established a vertical integrated steel company, the second richest in history who was a success man that controlled every phrase of business from raw materials to transportation, manufacturing and distribution. He had accumulated a fortune worth hundreds of millions of dollars. With his fortune he distributed much of his wealth to humanitarianism, especially the creation of public libraries throughout the countries and overseas. Also, he was a great benefactor of funding others institutions, like: hospitals, universities, scientific-research efforts, and artistic institutions and pension company. In addition, he though in the most vulnerable people of that era, Black Americans.

I choose this paragraph because I admire Carnegie. He had a very sense of humanity. This world is full of rich people who usually think on construct an imperial politic power. However, this man though on how to fund the most important causes that people had, using his generosity. He funded in health, education, etc.     

Abraham Lincoln. A quote about his second speech.

“The Second Inaugural Address is one of the most famous political speeches of all time (along with the Gettysburg Address). In this speech Lincoln tries put the war in context, he views it as a long and painful act of atonement for the sins of slavery. Slavery is a crime against nature and a part of "original sin" in Christian doctrine.”

This was his second inauguration of as president of the Unites States and the victory of the American Civil War where the days of slavery possibly end. Lincoln`s speech was full of emotions. He was so firm that God give people the right of thing, believe, speak, worship, and generally act as they choose, but not infringe on another person`s freedom. He said that slavery is crime condemned by Christian doctrine as sins.

I admire President Lincoln because he was courage to be a white man who emancipates blacks’ people. He was considered the first president of the black man. He sacrifices himself for black Americans; he fought until he was assassinated. He was the personification of America and the savior of the Union.  Also, he was a man and a brilliant politician. He freed slaves, he made emancipation proclamation. In addition, he reconciled North and South to provided new opportunities to blacks. He wanted to achieve and cherish peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Speech at the Anti-Slavery Associacion (1948)

This quote from Page 238
"I will just say, however, that we had some advice given us lately, from very high authority, I allude to Henry Clay, who, in his last speech before the Colonization Society, at Washington, advised the free colored people of the United States that they had better to go to Africa."

Frederick Douglas expresed himself in his speech against a high authority (Henry Clay) who believed that was better that Africans stayed in their counties intead of being in The United States. Douglas was totally disagree because he was claiming the Rights of the Constitution which is against discrimination (gender, race, national origin, age, sexual orientation or gender identity, and individual rights such as freedom of thought, speech, religion, the press and movement).

I pick this quote because I believe that everyone has the right to stay where a person decide to stay, and nobody has to go or not to their country of origin if he/she don`t want. American Colonization Society was planning to freed African Americans in order to take them far from the United States because of their racism. According to the Constitution, Africans suppose to be free with nothing in change. The Amendment # 13 "abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime."