ABRAHAM LINCOLN - A GREAT COMMUNICATOR

He was President of USA, until assassinated in 1865.
He delivered that famous Gettysburg Address in 1863 which began: "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 … "

The following words of his might have been spoken about health education —

"Assume to dictate to a man's reason, command his action or cause him to be shunned or despised and he will retreat within himself, close the avenues to his head and heart and though your cause be naked truth itself, transformed to the heaviest lance [spear] and harder than steel can be made, you shall no more be able to pierce him than to penetrate the hard shell of a tortoise with a rye straw."

We all need to be health educators. Let us all take Abraham Lincoln's word to heart. Let us be so careful how we speak to people about their health.

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