 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1905 - 350 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...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 428 pages
...happiness. 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 endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else,... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 452 pages
...happiness. 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 endowment. But in the right to eat the bread without the leave of anybody else,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 428 pages
...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 Judge Douglas, and the equal... | |
 | William Gardner - Biography & Autobiography - 1905 - 256 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 Judge Douglas and the equal... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - World history - 1906 - 758 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...many respects. 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... | |
 | Samuel Peter Orth - United States - 1906 - 466 pages
...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 morals or intellectual... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1906 - 536 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 - 1906 - 464 pages
...in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 1 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1906 - 650 pages
...happiness. 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 endowments. 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... 
