Lex Fridman: belief

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…Thaddeus Stevens was one of the most radical of the radical Republicans. He’s a congressman from Pennsylvania who… People think people say harsh things now in Congress; Thaddeus Stevens just eviscerated people. And he was way out… I mean, he was an ardent abolitionist and for equal rights for women in many ways and he picked up a number of causes and championed them. I think in your lecture you mentioned this thing which I just love, the slime line. He had a- This is his kind of line. He’s sitting in the House of Representatives and one of his opponents- … and he’s speaking, and one of his opponents starts to come down to the floor and he says, and this is a paraphrase, “I’m gonna pause while my colleague,” from wherever he was from, “slinks across the floor of this House and adheres to his seat by his own slime.”…

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