 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1905 - 350 pages
...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...the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every other man." I have chiefly introduced this for the purpose of meeting the Judge's charge that the quotation... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - History - 1905 - 680 pages
...seeking the social equality of ^g jebaS the negro, to which Lincoln memorably replied: "In the (1858) right to eat the bread without the leave of anybody...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." The culmination of the debate was reached at Freeport. When Lincoln put the question whether the people... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1905 - 644 pages
...of seeking the social equality of i the negro, to which Lincoln memorably replied: " In the (1858) right to eat the bread without the leave of anybody...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." The culmination of the debate was reached at Freeport. When Lincoln put the question whether the people... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 pages
...hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color,...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. Now I pass on to consider one or two more of these little follies. The judge is woefully at fault about... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1906 - 386 pages
...as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many 20 respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. . . . Judge Douglas has read from my speech in 25 Springfield, in which I say that " a house divided... | |
 | Samuel Peter Orth - United States - 1906 - 466 pages
...equal in many respects, certainly not in color, perhaps not in morals or intellectual endowments ; but in the right to eat the bread without the leave...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." Equally popular was Douglas's strategy on the nationalization of slavery. He affected indifference... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1906 - 536 pages
...hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color,...the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, ing opposed our soldiers who were fighting in the Mexican War. The judge did not make his charge very... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - World history - 1906 - 766 pages
...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 not in color, perhaps...intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread which his own hand earns he is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Slavery - 1906 - 398 pages
...inborn God^jiven right to make the best of himself, no matter what his race or color. As Lincoln put it, "in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he [the negro] is my equal, . . . and the equal of every living man." ' 1 See Smith, Parties and Slavery... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Abolitionists - 1906 - 410 pages
...Godgiven right to make the best of himself, no matter what his race or color. As Lincoln put it, " in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he [the negro] is my equal, . . . and the equal of every living man.",* 1 See Smith, Parties and Slavery... | |
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But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. 
