what does the phrase "Is Today your obligation or your opportunity? Only YOU can choose!" mean

Answer:

It means, are you looking at it negatively or postively? Are you looking at your work and daily duties as a chore that you just want to get over with, or are you looking at them as a step ladder to help yourself / do some good / live happily. The choice is up to you, whether you want to shine a positive light on the things you must do or not.

Explanation:

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Letter to a Citizen of Kentucky, an excerpt

Executive Mansion, Washington,
April 4, 1864.
A. G. Hodges, Esq., Frankfort, Ky.

My Dear Sir:
You ask me to put in writing the substance of what I verbally stated the other day, in your presence, to Governor Bramlette and Senator Dixon. It was about as follows:
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel; and yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially in this judgment and feeling. It was in the oath I took that I would to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it in my view that I might take the oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power.
I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery. I had publicly declared this many times and in many ways; and I aver that, to this day I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the Constitution?
By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery, or any minor matter, I should permit the wreck of government, country, and Constitution altogether.
When, early in the war, General Fremont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it, because I did not then think it an indispensable necessity. When, a little later, General Cameron, then Secretary of War, suggested the arming of the blacks, I objected, because I did not yet think it an indispensable necessity. When, still later, General Hunter attempted military emancipation, I forbade it, because I did not yet think the indispensable necessity had come. When, in March and May and July, 1862, I made earnest and successive appeals to the Border States to favor compensated emancipation, I believed the indispensable necessity for military emancipation and arming the blacks would come, unless averted by that measure. They declined the proposition; and I was, in my best judgment, driven to the alternative of either surrendering the Union, and with it the Constitution, or of laying strong hand upon the colored element. I chose the latter. In choosing it, I hoped for greater gain than loss; but of this I was not entirely confident...

Yours truly,

A. Lincoln

Read the following lines from the passage:

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel; and yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially in this judgment and feeling.

Which comes closest to capturing Lincoln's true meaning in this passage? (4 points)

a
I believe in abolishing slavery, but I know the majority of the people do not support it.

b
I do not believe in forcing my beliefs on the people just because I am the president.

c
I do not believe that the presidency gives me the authority to abolish slavery.

d
Those who support abolishing slavery should look to another government authority.

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Sentence example for oppressor

In 1930 Mohandas "Mahatma Gandhi led a nonviolent march in India protesting Britain's colonial
triggering moment for the targer civil disobedience movement that eventually con todas las pendence
from Britain in 1947. Shortly before the Salt March, Gandhi had written to Viceroy Lord Irwin, the
representative of the British crown in India. The passage below is the conclusion of that letter. Read the
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message to Lord Irwin that the taxes should be reversed.
I know that in embarking on non-violence, I shall
be running what might fairly be termed a mad risk
though they undoubtedly are for the consideration of
any scheme of Government they have little bearing
But the victories of truth have never been won
without risks, often of the gravest character,
on the greater problems which are above communities
Conversion of a nation that has consciously or
and which affect them all equally. But if you cannot
unconsciously preyed upon another, far more
see your way to deal with these evils and my letter
makes no appeal to your heart, on the eleventh day
numerous, far more ancient, and no less cultured
than itself, is worth any amount of risk
of this month, I shall proceed with such co-workers of
50 the Ashram' as I can take, to disregard the provisions
I have deliberately used the word conversion. For of the salt laws. I regard this tax to be the most
10 my ambition is no less than to convert the British
iniquitous of all from the poor man's standpoint.
people through non-violence, and thus to make them As the independence movement is essentially for the
see the wrong they have done to India. I do not seek poorest in the land, the beginning will be made with
to harm your people. I want to serve them even as I 55 this evil. The wonder is that we have submitted to the
want to serve my own. I believe that I have always cruel monopoly for so long. It is, I know, open to you
15
served them
to frustrate my design by arresting me. I hope that
I served them up to 1919, blindly. But when my there will be tens of thousands ready, in a disciplined
eyes were opened and I conceived non-co-operation, manner, to take up the work after me, and, in the act
the object still was to serve them. I employed the 60 of disobeying the Salt Act, to lay themselves open to
same weapon that I have, in all humility, successfully the penalties of a law that should never have
20 used against the dearest members of my family. If I disfigured the statute book.
have equal love for your people with mine, it will not
I have no desire to cause you unnecessary
long remain hidden. It will be acknowledged by them, embarrassment, or any at all, so far as I can help. If
even as members of my family acknowledged, 65 you think that there is any substance in my letter, and
they had tried me for several years. If the people if you will care to discuss matters with me, and if to
25 join me, as I expect they will the sufferings they
will
that end you would like me to postpone publication
undergo, unless the British nation sooner retraces its of this letter, I shall gladly refrain on receipt of a
steps, will be enough to melt the stoniest hearts.
telegram to that effect soon after this reaches you.
The plan through civil disobedience will be to
70 You will, however, do me the favour not to deflect me
combat such evils as I have sampled out. If we want from my course, unless you can see your way to
30 to sever the British connection it is because of such
conform to the substance of this letter.
evils. When they are removed, the path becomes easy. This letter is not in any way intended as a threat,
Then the way to friendly negation will
be open. If but is a simple and sacred duty, peremptory on a civil
the British commerce with India is purified of greed, 75 register. Therefore, I am having it specially delivered
you will have no difficulty in recognizing our
by a young English friend who believes in the Indian
35 independence. I invite you then to pave the way for cause and is a full believer in non-violence and whom
Providence seems to have sent to me, as it were, for
immediate removal of those evils, and thus open a
the very purpose.
way for real conference between equals, interested
only in promoting the common good of mankind
1 A spiritual retreat or monastery for a community of Hindus
through voluntary fellowship and in arranging terms
2 The India Salt Act (1852) enforced the British colonial government's monopoly on
40 of mutual help and commerce equally suited to both.
the collection, manufacture, and sale of salt in Indu
You have unnecessarily laid stress upon communal
problems that unhappily affect this land. Important
after the

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