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" I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races — that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,... "
The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science - Page 64
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Feenin: A Novel

Nane Quartay - Fiction - 2008 - 226 pages
...there must be the position of superior and inferior," Tokus recited to a stunned Way Jalon. "And I am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race." Tokus paused to look Way in the eye. "Abraham Lincoln. You found an old racist to sing your...
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - History - 2004 - 372 pages
...regard to it. I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in anv way the social and political equality of the white...having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior...
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The African Presence in Black America

Jacob U. Gordon - Africa - 2004 - 438 pages
...place of Black folk when he stated in his commentary during his debate with Stephen A. Douglas in 1858. There is a physical difference between the white and...having the superior position assigned to the white race. (p. 35) Perhaps the greatest impact of omitting the presence of Africans and African Americans...
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The Character Factor: How We Judge America's Presidents

James P. Pfiffner - Political Science - 2003 - 230 pages
...that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social...having the superior position assigned to the white race.9 Lincoln biographer David Herbert Donald argues that Lincoln's statement was made out of political...
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Refiguring Huckleberry Finn

Carl F. Wieck - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 257 pages
...that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social...having the superior position assigned to the white race. (The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 3 : 145-46) 37. That Lincoln could not, however, bring...
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Refiguring Huckleberry Finn

Carl F. Wieck - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 257 pages
...that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social...having the superior position assigned to the white race. (The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 3 : 145-46) 37. That Lincoln could not, however, bring...
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Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity

Anthony Tibbles, Anthony H. Tibbles - History - 2005 - 192 pages
...example of the corruption of man left to himself. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1810, vol. xiv, p. 750): ... there is a physical difference between the white and...having the superior position assigned to the white race. (Abraham Lincoln, 1858)' Definitions of 'racism' 'Racism' has been defined in a number of different...
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2003 Lectures

Civilization - 2004 - 494 pages
...intermarry with white people. . . . And inasmuch as they [the races] cannot so live [in equality], while they do remain together there must be the position...having the superior position assigned to the white race.12 It is clear that Lincoln held views that by any standard would be considered racist. This has...
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880

Robin D. G. Kelley, Earl Lewis - History - 2005 - 320 pages
...as favoring whites over blacks. "There must be," he said during his campaign for the Senate in 1858, "the position of superior and inferior, and I as much...having the superior position assigned to the white race." Expressions such as these inspired increasing despair. To Southerners, Abraham Lincoln was the...
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Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas

Grif Stockley - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 352 pages
...they do remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."24 With the publication in 1994 of the highly controversial The Bell Curve: Intelligence and...
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