"I found many good people very much concerned over the separation of Panama from Colombia so long as it was called a secession, but not minding it at all as long as it was called a revolution! It took me a long time to realize that they identified secession with the action of the Southern Confederacy, and revolution with our action of 1776!"
Here Roosevelt observed how powerfully word choice stirs our emotions. A paragraph of good will can be spoiled by an ill-chosen word or tone. That shouldn't stop us from speaking from the heart, but it does guide us to keep our heart in the right place.
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