 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 458 pages
...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 or intellectual... | |
 | John Graham Brooks - Labor - 1903 - 412 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...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 - United States - 1903 - 394 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 or intellectual... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 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 or intellectual... | |
 | Allen Caperton Braxton - African Americans - 1903 - 98 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." Again, and upon a subsequent occasion, referring to the same subject in a public speech, he said: "I... | |
 | Norman Dwight Harris - African Americans - 1904 - 316 pages
...entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to fife, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that...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... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Abolitionists - 1904 - 516 pages
...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 them as the white man." It was such utterances as these that bore Lincoln into the White House, caught... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Antislavery movements - 1904 - 422 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 them as the white man." It was such utterances as these that bore Lincoln into the White House, caught... | |
 | Norman Dwight Harris - African Americans - 1904 - 312 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 0} Judge Douglas, and the equal... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 432 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...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... | |
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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... 
