Today's American Minute

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American Fireside Poet - "Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs" - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 18, 2023

In 1842, Longfellow expressed his public support for abolishing slavery by publishing a collection, Poems on Slavery, which was reprinted by The New England Anti-Slavery Association.

Victor Hugo: Greatest of Romanticist Poets, his classic novel Les Miserables & his epic poem Vlad Dracul - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 16, 2023 • his classic novel Les Miserables & his epic poem Vlad Dracul • Victor Hugo: Greatest of Romanticist Poets

Hugo stated: "England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England."

Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist Leader & Advisor to Lincoln, "I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ" - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 15, 2023 • Abolitionist Leader & Advisor to President Abraham Lincoln - American Minute with Bill Federer • Frederick Douglass

Douglass continued: "I finally found that change of heart which comes by 'casting all one's care' upon God, and by having faith in Jesus Christ, as the Redeemer, Friend, and Savior of those who diligently seek him. After this, I saw the world in a new light ... I loved all mankind -- slaveholders not excepted; though I abhorred slavery more than ever ... I gathered scattered pages of the Bible from the filthy street gutters, and washed and dried them, that ... I might get a word or two of wisdom from them."

Cold War, Socialism, & the Foreign Policy of Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 15, 2023 • & the Foreign Policy of Eisenhower & John Foster Dulles • Cold War • Socialism

Socialist tactics included infiltration of western countries and identifying groups with grievances: ethnically, economically, racially, or religiously.

These groups were then divided into victims and oppressors, "haves" and "have nots," and organized to protest. Agitators would escalate the protests into violent, bloody riots, attacking government buildings.

The Ten Commandments & the need for a Moral, Educated Population in a Self-Governing Republic - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 14, 2023 • The Ten Commandments & the necessity of a moral and educated population for self-government - American Minute with Bill Federer

On February 5, 1996, Margaret Thatcher stated: "The Decalogue (TEN COMMANDMENTS) are addressed to each and every person.This is the origin ... the sanctity of the individual ... You don't get that in any other political creed ... It is personal liberty with personal responsibility."