People are the way they are. They will always be this way. We don't control that. We do control who we are. We control whether we let them drag us down. We control whether we become like them.
How do you hold a country together when it's tearing itself apart? In this episode, Ryan sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to talk about Abraham Lincoln's self-education, emotional discipline, and how he managed anger, ego, and public pressure without losing himself.
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The kids came out of the church when they saw him. They threw rocks and bricks and called him the vilest names that could spring from a southern tongue. And he asked his grandparents, 'What kind of god they got up inside that church?'
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