; Whereas Abraham Lincoln in an 1858 speech said of the Founders, Wise statesmen as they were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so they established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began—so that truth, and justice, and mercy, and all the humane and Christian virtues might not be extinguished from the land; so that no man would hereafter dare to limit and circumscribe the great principles on which the temple of liberty was being built ; Whereas Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., while recognizing that no other nation can mean to us what our nation means , condemned nationalism perverted into chauvinism and isolationism as preached by * * * the advocators of white supremacy and asked, Will we continue to serve the false god of racial prejudice or will we serve the God who made of one blood all men to dwell upon the face of the earth?