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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... "
Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin - Page 216
by William Dean Howells - 1860 - 390 pages
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The Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the ...

Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign debates - 1912 - 714 pages
...negro is not entitled to all the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, — the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas that he is not my equal in many respects, certainly not in color, perhaps not in intellectual and moral...
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The Idea and Vision of Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of Theodore Roosevelt

Daniel Webster Church - 1912 - 56 pages
...brother, or any kin to me whatever." To which Lincoln replied: "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 the leave of anybody else, which his own hands...
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The Ultimate Solution of the American Negro Problem

Edward Eggleston - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 298 pages
...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...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...
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Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861)

Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 472 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...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...
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The Ultimate Solution of the American Negro Problem

Edward Eggleston - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 294 pages
...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...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...
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Lincoln and Slavery

Albert Enoch Pillsbury - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 112 pages
...not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right 32 to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree that he is not my equal in many respects, certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual...
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Lincoln and Slavery

Albert Enoch Pillsbury - 1913 - 114 pages
...the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree that 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...
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Political History of Secession to the Beginning of the American Civil War

Daniel Wait Howe - History - 1914 - 696 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...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...
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Political History of Secession to the Beginning of the American Civil War

Daniel Wait Howe - History - 1914 - 718 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...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...
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The Fifth Reader

Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - Readers - 1914 - 308 pages
...rights [named] in the Declaration of Independence ... I agree with 225 Judge Douglas, he [the negro] is not my equal in many respects — certainly not...endowments. But, in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, 230 which his own hand earns, he is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas,...
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