" The country’s fate, Johnson said, was intertwined with the country’s sense of fairness. “Unless we are willing to yield up our destiny of greatness among civilizations of history, Americans—white and Negro together—must be about the business of resolving the challenge that confronts us now,” he said. “Our nation found its soul of honor on these fields of Gettysburg one hundred years ago. We must not lose that soul in dishonor now on the fields of hate. "

― Jon Meacham , The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels