 | Albert Enoch Pillsbury - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 112 pages
...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 every living man." Lincoln,... | |
 | Virginia State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 470 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: 10... | |
 | Elbert B. Smith - United States - 1975 - 252 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... | |
 | Glen E. Thurow - Political Science - 1976 - 146 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, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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... 
