Never Give Up!!

It was once a little boy who was born in 1809, lived in a one room log cabin with his mom and dad on a farm near Kentucky. ( a state that allowed slavery at that time ) He lost his mom at the age of nine & a year later his dad got remarried. 
His situation wouldn't allow him to go to school because he had to work on a neighbors farm full time to survive & help support his family.
Since his education ended very prematurely , he started to read everything he got his hands on like matemathics , literature & law. The beginning of his self-education began.
Eventually this self-educated man became a lawyer.
He had a very strong desire to make changes , so he got involved in politics.
He got married and got 4 kids but he would still continue his fight to make differences.
He failed 8 times with major set backs & even bankruptcy. But every time  he would get back up again and continue to march ahead and learn from his failure and set backs .
Alot of people thought he was wasting his time & some would even laugh at him , but he didn't let it affect him. He wasn't popular at the time because his opinions were so different to what most people thought,
but he didn't let that stop him either. 
Finally in 1860 after years of struggle & hard work Abraham Lincoln was eleceted as the 16th president of America.
In 1865 after four years of civil war he put a stop to the slavery.
On April 14th Lincoln went with his wife to celebrate the end of the war , he only made it half way to the play where Lincoln got shot by a man named John Wilkes Booth , he was for the slavery.

But Lincoln died with his head up high & his honor well kept & his courage and persistence will forever be a great example for many many generations to come.
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
Abram Lincoln On Democracy 

God Bless Abraham Lincoln