Presidencies Quotes

“Lincoln was a poor boy who became a president of the United States."

"I know that already," I said. "Tell me what he did when he became president."

"Well, when he became president he said that all men are created equal," Miss Strandon said. "But some men, vicious men, who had Negro slaves, did not like what he said. So a terrible war was fought between the states of the United States, and the slaves were freed and the nation was preserved. But one night he was murdered by an assassin...."

"Why?" I asked.

"Why? she said. "He was a great man."

"What is a Negro?" I asked.

"A Negro is a black person," she said.

"Abraham Lincoln died for a black person?" I asked.

"Yes," she said. "He was a great man.”
― Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart: A Personal History