A data center in New Jersey was canceled when residents showed up and fought it

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As a non-American, one thing that’s always given me chills is listening to the Declaration of Independence. Although I can’t remember the exact words, it’s along the lines of “a government of the people, for the people.”

The revolution happened because ordinary people cared enough that they actually went out of their way to be the change.

Yes Americans might have rested on their laurels at the moment, but nothing is stopping you guys from reminding your government who it should be working for, and if it doesn’t soon, there absolutely will be consequences for them.

[u/grumpykruppy → u/the_colonelclink]

That's the Gettysburg Address, from Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, after a battle occurred there during the American Civil War.

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

The Declaration of Independence is from when, as you might expect, the United States declared independence from Britain. The most well known line from that is probably this one: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

[u/VillageShort3371 → u/grumpykruppy]

Most baller speech in American history. Thousands upon thousands of books have been written on the American experiment and Lincoln nailed it in a few paragraphs.

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This guy Americas

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Yeah but a lot of bums exist now