This declared indifference, but as I may think, covert real zeal for the spread of slavery, I can not but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the worldāenables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocritesācauses the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil libertyācriticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting there there is no right principle of action but self-interest. Abraham Lincoln, speech on Kansas-Nebraska Act 0ctober 16, 1854 Apathy; the required instrument for the denigration of the established ideas meant to unite and protect us as one national community. And what is it, but indifference; made of ignorance and self-interest. It ha...
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