 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign debates - 1912 - 714 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 moral... | |
 | Robert William McLaughlin - Biography & Autobiography - 1912 - 324 pages
...white man was bound to respect,"2 should administer the oath to the man who had said of the negro that "in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, 1 Writings of Washington, Ford Ed., vol. si., p. 434, note. * Dred Scott Decision, 1857; 19 Howard,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1907 - 1038 pages
...of attesting that "all men" were created with certain inalienable rights, among which was certainly "the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which their own hand earns," by transmuting in the alembic of his practical mind the glittering generality... | |
 | Edward Eggleston - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 294 pages
...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...agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects—certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right... | |
 | Albert Enoch Pillsbury - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 112 pages
...not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right 32 to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree that he is not my equal in many respects, certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - History - 1914 - 718 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...agree, with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects—certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right... | |
 | Rose Strunsky - Presidents - 1914 - 392 pages
...agree with Judge Douglas. He (the Negro) is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in colour, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But...the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, \J he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." This much-quoted... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - Readers - 1914 - 308 pages
...rights [named] in the Declaration of Independence ... I agree with 225 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, 230 which his own... | |
 | John Thomas Richards - Biography & Autobiography - 1916 - 312 pages
...happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas that he is not my equal in many respects — certainly...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... | |
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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... 
