Robert Smalls 1839-1915
“I am delivering this war material including these cannons and I think Uncle Abraham Lincoln can put them to good use.”
It has something to do with will. The one quality that seems to unite those of whom we write, from the poorest to the richest, from those well-known to those who were launched from a cauldron of obscurity, is that they were determined to accomplish one goal, or series of goals, regardless of how others, or society at large, or conventional wisdom, or c…