 But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.  Abraham Lincoln: A History - Page 149by John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects, certainly not in colour, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But...right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody, which his own hand earns, he is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of any living... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 280 pages
...white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects, certainly not in colour, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But...right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody, which his own hand earns, he is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of any living... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas; he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowments. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1894 - 336 pages
...hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not ra)' equal in many respects, — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowments. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 444 pages
...hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowments. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Campaign debates - 1895 - 584 pages
...hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects, — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowments. But | in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his ' own hand... | |
 | Henry William Elson - United States - 1899 - 424 pages
...happiness. " I agree with Judge Douglas," said he, " that the negro is not my equal in many respects . . . but in the right to eat the bread, without the leave...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." His most eloquent apostrophe to the Declaration of Independence had been uttered early in August at... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 pages
...not my equal in any respect, certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowments, but in the right to eat the bread, without the leave...equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of any living man. "Now, I pass on to consider one or two more of these little follies. The Judge is woefully... | |
 | William Harrison Mace - Heroes - 1900 - 444 pages
...[named] in the Declaration of Independence ... I agree with Judge Douglas, he [the negro] is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral and intellectual endowments. But, in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else,... | |
 | Marshall Everett - United States - 1901 - 568 pages
...to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. "I agree with Judge Douglas: he (the negro) is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color;...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. "I think, and shall try to show, that it is wrong, wrong in its direct effect, letting slavery into... | |
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