 | Eric Arnesen - Business & Economics - 2007 - 1734 pages
...sought economic opportunity and the legal equality needed to protect their right, as Lincoln put it, "to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns." Republicans believed that blacks could be integrated into their philosophy of free labor. In this theory,... | |
 | Robert Walter Johannsen - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 366 pages
..."I agree with Judge Douglas that he [the African American] is not my equal in many respects . . . ; but in the right to eat the bread without the leave of any body else which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal... | |
 | Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Robert Edward Lee - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 700 pages
...passions, desires, and inclinations, including the desire for self-determination. Equal, as Lincoln said, in the "right to eat the bread without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns. . . ." Capable, as George Washington finally realized, "of a destiny different from that in which they... | |
 | Robert Vare - Social Science - 2008 - 689 pages
...Ueclaration of Independence, the right lo life, liherly and the pursuit ot happiness. | Ioud cheers.II hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. UNCOI N'S SREECH AT isETTYSBORi; WORKED seyeral reyolutions, heginning with one in literary style.... | |
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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... 
