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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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Publications, Issue 13

Illinois State Historical Society - Illinois - 1909 - 424 pages
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Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature ...

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...
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Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature ...

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...
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An Interview

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...
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Addresses and Papers by Andrew S. Draper ...: 1909-1910

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...
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Selections from the Letters, Speeches, and State Papers of Abraham Lincoln

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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Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: Including the Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Abraham Lincoln - 1911 - 140 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...much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with JuJge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects, — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral...
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The period of development as a Nation

William Harrison Mace - United States - 1911 - 160 pages
...natural rights [named] in the Declaration of Independence ... I agree with Judge Douglas, he [the negro] is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowments. But, in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand...
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The Idea and Vision of Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of Theodore Roosevelt

Daniel Webster Church - 1912 - 56 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." I see...
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British and American Eloquence

Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood - Orator - 1912 - 428 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 or...
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