Word: opinionizing
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...happened at HLS in 2002. He certainly does not present his readers with some of the stronger arguments for limiting certain racist speech on campus. Thomas uses a clever tact throughout the book to preserve as much of an appearance of impartiality as possible: rather than voicing his own opinion, he peppers his book with commentary by Harvey Silverglate, who according to Thomas has “represented numerous students in disputes with the Harvard University administration over violations of their free-speech rights.” But in a book where virtually all the other commentary are made either...
...cause. What was in it for Douglass, who at the midpoint of the Civil War came to believe that Lincoln was a racist who argued that blacks and whites should be kept apart? Douglass came to realize that Lincoln's shrewd sense of timing and public opinion would serve his goal of freeing the nation's blacks...
What Douglass did not know was that Lincoln had already drafted a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation but had not made it public. Lincoln wanted to free the slaves, but he felt that the nation was not yet ready for an antislavery war. He was an astute judge of public opinion and knew that he could not be more than one step ahead of it without losing support. His colonization plan helped in this effort; it was good politics and made emancipation seem tolerable to conservatives, especially slaveholders in the border states. The tide of public opinion was beginning to turn...
...Here comes my friend," Lincoln said, and took Douglass by the hand. "I am glad to see you. I saw you in the crowd today, listening to my inaugural address." He asked Douglass how he liked it, adding, "There is no man in the country whose opinion I value more than yours...
...same God; and each invokes His aid against the other ... let us judge not that we be not judged." In the largest sense, Lincoln's empathy allowed him to absorb the sorrows and hopes of his countrymen, to sense their shifting moods so he could shape and mold their opinion with the right words and the right deeds at the right time...