 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 322 pages
...happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas that he is not my equal in many respects, certainly not in color — perhaps not in intellectual and moral endowments; but in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1907 - 434 pages
...negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence. ... I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects, . . . perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1908 - 744 pages
...negro is not entitled to all the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, — the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas that he is not my equal in many respects, certainly not in color, perhaps not in intellectual and moral... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Illinois - 1908 - 698 pages
...Declaration of Independence,—the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [Loud cheers.] I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the...agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects,—certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right... | |
 | Illinois - 1908 - 702 pages
...Declaration of Independence, — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [Loud cheers.] I hold that he is as much, entitled to these as the white rn.an. I agree with Judge Douglas he isl not my equal in many respects, — certainly not in color,... | |
 | Adlai Ewing Stevenson - United States - 1909 - 518 pages
...not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral and intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which... | |
 | Adlai Ewing Stevenson - United States - 1909 - 684 pages
...not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral and intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which... | |
 | Daniel Webster Church - Social problems - 1910 - 188 pages
...brother, or any kin to me whatever." To which Lincoln replied: "I agree with Judge Douglas that the negro is not my equal in many respects — certainly not...bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hands earn, he is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." For... | |
 | Andrew Sloan Draper - Education - 1910 - 212 pages
...between the races which would probably forbid their living together on terms of perfect equality, " but in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, the negro is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." He showed... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — -the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is 5 not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment.... | |
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I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is... 
