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 as... Abraham Lincoln: A History - Page 147by John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890Full view - About this book
| Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1907 - 434 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, . . . perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Illinois - 1908 - 698 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...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... | |
| Illinois - 1908 - 702 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 rn.an. I agree with Judge Douglas he isl not my equal in many respects, — certainly not in color,... | |
| Adlai Ewing Stevenson - United States - 1909 - 536 pages
...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...respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral and intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which... | |
| Adlai Ewing Stevenson - United States - 1909 - 518 pages
...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...respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral and intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which... | |
| Daniel Webster Church - Social problems - 1910 - 188 pages
...brother, or any kin to me whatever." To which Lincoln replied: "I agree with Judge Douglas that the negro is not my equal in many respects — certainly not...bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hands earn, he is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." For... | |
| Andrew Sloan Draper - Education - 1910 - 212 pages
...between the races which would probably forbid their living together on terms of perfect equality, " 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." He showed... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...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...as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is 5 not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment.... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1911 - 140 pages
...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. I agree with JuJge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects, — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral... | |
| William Harrison Mace - United States - 1911 - 160 pages
...natural rights [named] in the Declaration of Independence ... I agree with 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, which his own hand... | |
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