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Robert De Niro walked onto Carnegie Hall's stage Tuesday night, unannounced and to loud applause.
He didn't make any speeches, at least none of his own. After a career defined by playing gangsters, an avenging taxi driver and a paranoid prize fighter, the Oscar-winning actor recited a call for civility, as first spoken by Abraham Lincoln.
“Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense," De Niro said in an even voice, halting at first, but becoming firmer as he became caught up in words Lincoln delivered in 1838, early in his public life.
“Let those materials be molded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence for the constitution and laws."
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