“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” - Abraham Maslow

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

December 4

“Recognizing me, even before I reached him, the president exclaimed, so that all around could hear him, ‘Here comes my friend Douglass.’ Taking me by the hand, he said, ‘I am glad to see you. I saw you in the crowd today, listening to my inaugural address; how did you like it?’ I said, ‘Mr. Lincoln, I must not detain you with my poor opinion when there are thousands waiting to shake hands with you.’ ‘No, no,’ he said, ‘you must stop a little, Douglass; there is no man in the country whose opinion I value more than yours. I want to know what you thought of it.’ I replied, ‘Mr. Lincoln, that was a sacred effort.’” - Frederick Douglass, Ex-slave, White House reception after Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865