...Nor was he, as we've been led to believe, always a champion of blacks. Au contraire. He once boasted: "I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, not of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people." Before the outbreak of...

...his opening speech in his fourth joint debate at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858, he said: I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of the bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races — that...

...was asked me, I thought I would occupy, perhaps, five minutes, in saying something in regard to it. I will say then, that I am not nor ever have been...not, nor ever have been in favor of making voters of the negroes, or jurors, or qualifying them to hold office, or having them marry with white people....

...Debating with the hard-hitting, up front racist Douglas in Charleston, Lincoln found himself saying: "I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing...and political equality of the white and black races ... I am not nor ever 15. Donald, Lincoln, p. 201 16. Donald, Lincoln, p. 207 have been in favor of...

...in 1858. Keep in mind that the following words are those of Abraham Lincoln: "l will say then that l am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about...equality of the white and black races •• that l am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them...

...ugliness of the words, let her or him substitute in the above paragraph any ethnic group for blacks: I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing...the social and political equality of the white and Irish (Jewish, Italian, Hispanic, German, Chinese, whatever1 races. How did Lincoln, who, according...

...his seven debates with Douglas to refuting this charge: "I am not, nor ever have been," he argued, "in favor of bringing about in any way the social...and political equality of the white and black races. ... I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them...

...not intended to be included' in full citizenship" (1998: 121). Even Lincoln, the emancipator, argued: "I am not nor ever have been in favor of bringing about . . . , the social and political equality of the white and black races . . . Blacks must remain inferior"...

...Lincoln's own policy pronouncements on race, which today carry more than a whiff of the white supremacist: I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been,...political equality of the white and black races... [Audience applauds] ... that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes,...

...placed in an inferior position." But two months later, in southern Illinois, he assured his listeners: "I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been,...and political equality of the white and black races. ... I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.""...