 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...  Abraham Lincoln: A History - Page 149by John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Webster Church - Social problems - 1910 - 188 pages
...endowment. But in the right to eat the 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 the idea that had been given him having associated itself in his mind with the conception that... | |
 | Andrew Sloan Draper - Education - 1910 - 208 pages
...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 no resentment and made no answer to the Senator's unjust and probably facetious allusions... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1911 - 140 pages
...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...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. Now I pass on to consider one or two more of these little follies. The Judge is wofully at fault about... | |
 | William Harrison Mace - United States - 1911 - 160 pages
...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...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." These debates made Lincoln widely known. He accepted invitations to speak in Ohio, New York, and New... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, whicn nis own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, .and the equal of every living man. „ . . REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES COMPARED (Extract from sixth joint debate between Lincoln... | |
 | Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood - Orator - 1912 - 428 pages
...hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas that the negro is not my equal in many respects — certainly not...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. The Judge has read from my speech in Springfield in which I say that " a house divided against itself... | |
 | Daniel Webster Church - 1912 - 56 pages
...endowment. But in the right to eat the 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." I see him now through the mist of years, tall, gaunt, and sad-faced, burdened with his developing idea.... | |
 | Edward Eggleston - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 298 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...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." In this language Lincoln recognizes the fact that the Negro is conspicuously inferior to the white man,... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 472 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...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. Now I pass on to consider one or two more of these little follies. The judge is woefully at fault when... | |
 | Edward Eggleston - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 294 pages
...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...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." In this language Lincoln recognizes the fact that the Negro is conspicuously inferior to the white man,... | |
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