On this day:
1855 – The Wisconsin Supreme Court rules the U.S. Fugitive Slave Law, which declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters, unconstitutional.

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1906 – The Pope issues an encyclical against separation of church and state.

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1960 – Four students stage a civil rights sit-in at the Greensboro, NC, Woolworth store.

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2012 – Florida Republican Primary
1876 – The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations

‘Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone slaps you on one cheek…’

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2002 – In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush describes “regimes that sponsor terror” as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran, and North Korea.

‘Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused…’

‘Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and…’

‘Here lies the power of the liberal way—not in making the whole world Unitarian; but in helping ourselves and others to see some of the possibilities inherent in viewpoints other than one’s own;…’