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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... "
Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) - Page 128
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Narration, Identity, and Historical Consciousness

Jürgen Straub - Consciousness - 2005 - 304 pages
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Selections from the Works of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln - History - 2005 - 284 pages
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 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 — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral and intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which...
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Narration, Identity, and Historical Consciousness

Jürgen Straub - History - 2005 - 304 pages
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Abraham Lincoln's Faith Based Leadership: none

G. Fox - Religion - 2005 - 128 pages
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Self-Government, the American Theme: Presidents of the Founding and Civil War

Will Morrisey - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 294 pages
...Independence"; however, natural rights are not civil rights. "I agree with Judge Douglas [that the black man] is not my equal in many respects — certainly not...bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hands earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." Thus...
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History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future

David J. Staley - History - 2007 - 198 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. 1 agree with Judge Douglas (that the Negro] is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color,...
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Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling: Physiological, Performance, Growth ...

William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - Biometry - 2007 - 216 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." Maybe he is not equal "in many respects, certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual...
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Generals in Blue and Gray, Volume 1

Wilmer L. Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 392 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...that he is as much entitled to these as the white man."47 The Lincoln-Douglas contest became more than a race for an Illinois Senate seat; it became...
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Reconstructing the Fourth Amendment: A History of Search and Seizure, 1789-1868

Andrew E. Taslitz - Law - 2006 - 377 pages
...endowment" and was not likely to succeed in competition with free whites, nevertheless the Negro is in his "right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, . . . my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas and the equal of every living man." Moreover, even if...
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