 | James L. Huston - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 244 pages
...quickly, however: "I agree with Judge Douglas he [black man] is not my equal in many respects. . . . But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave...equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man."26 On the question of race, there was a palpable difference between the two men. Lincoln started... | |
 | David Brion Davis - Social Science - 2006 - 464 pages
...was "perhaps" not equal in moral or intellectual qualities, "in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he...judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. [Great applause.]"55 The election in Illinois was extremely close. The Republicans did not win enough... | |
 | Robert Walter Johannsen - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 366 pages
...not my equal in many respects . . . ; but in the right to eat the bread without the leave of any body else which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every other man."" What had been abfent during the 1840s sectional controversy-consideration of the people... | |
 | David J. Staley - History - 2007 - 198 pages
...certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or 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 man.15 As he read, subject A observed: He seems to be giving him equal, equal rights as far as living,... | |
 | Will Morrisey - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 294 pages
...endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hands earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." Thus Lincoln, in front of a large crowd of bigoted whites, managed to whittle down the certain 'inequalities'... | |
 | Andrew E. Taslitz - Law - 2006 - 377 pages
...in his "right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, . . . my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas and the equal of every living man." Moreover, even if Lincoln expressed doubts about the likelihood of black success, he believed that... | |
 | Ellen Blue Phillips - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 134 pages
...spread of it. .. .In the right to eat the bread of his labor without the leave of anyone else, the slave is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." He would Lincoln said to his continue and say to them that the friends "I fed like the Declaration... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Illinois - 2008 - 433 pages
..."right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns." And in that respect, "he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." This time, and for the first time, Lincoln was interrupted by "Great applause," and by shouts of All... | |
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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. 
