| Clark Prescott Bissett - Presidents - 1923 - 266 pages
...proposed a social equality of the races. "I agree with Judge Douglas," he said, "that 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 leave of anybody else, which... | |
| Ohio - 1924 - 770 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...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,... | |
| History - 1924 - 372 pages
...enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in 164 many respects — certainly not of happiness. I hold that he is as much in color, perhaps not in... | |
| 1924 - 616 pages
...enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in 164 many respects — certainly not of happiness. I hold that he is as much in color, perhaps not in... | |
| Carl Sandburg - 1926 - 526 pages
...horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse." Somebody congratulated him on the sentence about the negro, "In the right to eat the 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." It had... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1927 - 474 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...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,... | |
| Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Presidents - 1928 - 790 pages
...was no reason for denying the negro the natural rights stated in the Declaration. ' [Loud cheers.] I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. . . . He is not my equal in many respects. . . . But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave... | |
| Charles T. Sprading - Libertarianism - 1913 - 550 pages
...Negro is not entitled to all the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in any respect, certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowments, but in the right... | |
| Virginia State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 470 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...he is as much entitled to these as the white man." Again, and upon a subsequent occasion, referring to the same subject in a public speech, he said: 10... | |
| Elbert B. Smith - United States - 1975 - 252 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...endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anyone else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and... | |
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