I’m laughing at reading everybody’s responses and okay I get the irony. But I still think he would’ve said it because the larger point remains. Transformations created at the ballot box are more profound for a society in the long run than is the assassination of any one person.
Lincoln was wrong; that bullet fundamentally changed the lives of every black american. 40 acres and a mule was the Lincoln-proposed post-slavery reparation plan. It would have happened too, but his VP hated it and after he died, it never happened.