 | Don Erler - Political science - 2002 - 216 pages
...In one of his debates with Stephen Douglas in 1858, Lincoln conceded differences between the races, 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." Despite... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber - History - 2004 - 251 pages
...did not repudiate racism in terms that we would demand today. Lincoln acknowledged that a black man "is not my equal in many respects — certainly not...perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment." "But," he continued, "in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns,... | |
 | Jeremy Roberts - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 120 pages
...not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...he is as much entitled to these as the white man." The distinction Lincoln made was one often drawn between social classes at the time. Someone of the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - History - 2004 - 372 pages
...my equal in many respects, certainly not in color, perhaps not in intellectual and moral endowments; but in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, lie is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every other man." I have chiefly introduced... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell Jr., Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. (Loud cheers.) I hold that he is as much entitled to those as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is...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... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 944 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... | |
 | Will Morrisey - History - 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... | |
 | David J. Staley - Forecasting - 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,... | |
 | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - Biometry - 2006 - 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... | |
 | Wilmer L. Jones - History - 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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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... 
