Colson On Christian Social Concern

And daily we hear the hue and cry about conservatives wanting to “impose” their views on an unwilling society. Interestingly, that fearsome phrase originated not in response to Robertson and Falwell but goes back to the 1860 political campaign when Lincoln’s opponents charged he was trying to “impose” his will upon slave holders. We can be grateful he did and freed the slave holders as well as the slaves from a morally corrupt and corrupting institution.

—Chuck Colson, The Faith (Zondervan, 2008), p. 171-172.