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“If intelligent colored men, such as are before me, would move in this matter, much might be accomplished. It is exceedingly important that we have men at the beginning capable of thinking as white men, and not those who have been systematically oppressed. There is much to encourage you. For the sake of your race you should sacrifice something of your present comfort for the purpose of being as grand in that respect as the white people… The colony of Liberia has been in existence a long time… They are not all American colonists, or their descendants. Something less than 12,000 have been sent thither from this country. Many of the original settlers have died, yet, like people elsewhere, their offspring outnumber those deceased. The question is if the colored people are persuaded to go anywhere, why not there?” **~ Abraham Lincoln**; Address on Colonization to Deputation of Negroes; [August 14, 1862](https://archive.md/4DsVT)

This was him telling some of the most civilized apes to rally their ooga-boog brothers and get them ready for deportation.