Consensus-building can be very difficult, even for the president of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was faced with a nation that was split on the issue of slavery. In 1863, he wrote one of the most profound statements about human rights, the Emancipation Proclamation. According to a famous apocryphal story, Lincoln read the proclamation to
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