 | Kenneth M. Stampp - History - 1981 - 320 pages
...was "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." All the historical records from 1776 to the 1850s "may be searched in vain for one single affirmation,... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1982 - 466 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 and intellectual endowment. But in the right... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 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... | |
 | David Zarefsky - History - 1993 - 324 pages
...outcomes from the economic principle that he defended: "I agree with Judge Douglas [that the Negro] is not my equal in many respects — certainly not...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - History - 1991 - 474 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... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 326 pages
...Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [Loud cheers]. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. [SW 1.512] I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration] intended to include all... | |
 | Mario Carretero, James F. Voss - History - 1994 - 476 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Peter C. Vermilyea, G. S. Boritt, Jakob B. Boritt, Deborah R. Huso - History - 1996 - 208 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...entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge [Senator] Douglas he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral... | |
 | Michael J. Sandel - History - 1998 - 436 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."36 Although he shared the abolitionists' moral condemnation of slavery, Lincoln did not share... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin - History - 1997 - 236 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... | |
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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... 
