"The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue."

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Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept.

— Abraham Lincoln