To Inspire You

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

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Today In History

• In 1839 - Liberty Party, first anti-slavery political party, organized at Warsaw, NY
  
• In 1894 - A.C. Richardson patents the casket lowering device
  
• In 1913 - Daniel Hale Williams becomes first black elected to American College of Surgeons. Was also first person to perform open heart surgery
  
• In 1940 - Supreme Court ruled in Hansberry v. Lee that whites can't bar African Americans from white neighborhoods