 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 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... | |
 | David Zarefsky - History - 1993 - 324 pages
...outcomes from the economic principle that he defended: "I agree with Judge Douglas [that the Negro] is not my equal in many respects — certainly not...endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 474 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... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 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 man. [SW 1.512] I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration] intended to include all... | |
 | Mario Carretero, James F. Voss - Education - 1994 - 476 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...these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas [that the Negro] is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral... | |
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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... 
