 | Brent K. Ashabranner, Brent Ashabranner - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 78 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." In the presidential election of 1860, the Democratic ticket was split between the Northern Democrats... | |
 | Richard Münch - History - 2001 - 300 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.69 In his great Gettysburg address on November 19, 1863, Lincoln said that for the sake of those... | |
 | Don Erler - Philosophy - 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,... | |
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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... 
