We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Barack Obama
Today In History
In 1882- Benjamin Brawley, future literary scholar, born in Benedict, SC
In 1596- The first recorded slave revolt occurs in Stono, S.C.