Movie Speech: Lincoln “A compass”

Thaddeus StevensThaddeus Stevens: You claim you trust them— but you know what the people are. You know that the inner compass that should direct the soul toward justice has ossified in white men and women, North and South, unto utter uselessness through tolerating the evil of slavery. White people cannot bear the thought of sharing this country's infinite abundance with Negroes.

Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln: A compass I learnt when I was surveying, it'll point you true _____ from where you’re standing, but it's got no advice about the _______, deserts and chasms that you'll __________ along the way. If in pursuit of your __________, you plunge ahead heedless of _________, and achieve nothing more than to _____ in a swamp, what's the ____ of knowing true north? north swamps encounter destination obstacles sink use