Can Any One Tell Me About John Locke And Abraham Lincoln?

John Locke was a 17th-century English philosopher who, like Plato, felt that education was the most important requirement for the both boys and girls, which was a very unusual thought at the time.Locke taught that monarchs did not have a divine write tom rule, but could do so only with the consent of the people, who could turn the rulers out if they did not do their duty fairly.
         
           Abraham Lincoln can be called a champion of human rights. A man from humble origins, he studied law and rose to become the president of the United State Of America in 1860. Lincoln was opposed to idea of slavery and began the civil war of the northern states against the south to abolish this practice. In civil war, more Americans were killed than in all the wars the USA fought since. In 1863, he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation for all the slaves in the USA. Lincoln summed up the spirit of democracy in his famous word: 'A government of the people, by the people, for the people.'

These movements towards human rights were, as you have seen, largely confined to Europe and North America. While much of Asia and Africa was under the control of colonial nations, they were not preparing to give such freedom to their 'subject' people.