 | 1921 - 690 pages
...Everything, even economic necessity, had to yield to the impact of the argument from the Declaration: "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."1 This was a sentiment... | |
 | Kenneth M. Stampp - History - 1981 - 342 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 - History - 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...these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects—certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral and intellectual... | |
 | George M. Fredrickson - History - 1988 - 324 pages
...of Independence. Lincoln concluded this section of his speech by saying, "I 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 to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 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. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual... | |
 | 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 in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 474 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. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects— certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 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... | |
 | David F. Ericson - History - 1993 - 248 pages
...equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. 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. (Johannsen, p. 53... | |
 | David F. Ericson - History - 1993 - 252 pages
...existence of slavery and for a minimal type of social equality. 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 endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else,... | |
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Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects, — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. 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... 
