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" I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. "
Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin - Page 217
by William Dean Howells - 1860 - 390 pages
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Lincoln's Rail-splitter: Governor Richard J. Oglesby

Mark A. Plummer - Governors - 2001 - 278 pages
...went on to assert, "There is a physical difference" between the races "which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality." He did, however, "not perceive that because a white man is to have the superior position the negro...
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Dreams of a More Perfect Union

Rogan Kersh - History - 2001 - 388 pages
...humanity," particularly given his stress on the benefits of political participation. In 1858 Lincoln said "there is a physical difference between the white and black races, which I suppose, will forever forbid the two races living together upon terms of social and political equality."...
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Racism: A Global Reader

Kevin Reilly, Stephen Kaufman, Angela Bodino - History - 2003 - 438 pages
...and Lincoln never abandoned a basic attitude, so strongly expressed in the Douglas debates (1858). There is a physical difference between the white and...social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and...
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White Men Aren't

Thomas DiPiero - Social Science - 2002 - 356 pages
...supporter of racial equality, never abandoned a belief in biological inequality. Citing Lincoln's claim that "there is a physical difference between the white...together on terms of social and political equality" (S. Gould, The Mismeasure of Man [New York: Norton, 1996], 66), he writes: "I quote the men who have...
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The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon

G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 356 pages
...been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition...between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch...
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The Ashes That Still Remain

Thomas Koys - History - 2002 - 244 pages
...jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people . . . There is a physical difference between the white and...races living together on terms of social and political equality."17 However, even with declarations such as this, we have some reason to believe that Lincoln's...
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Secession, State, and Liberty

David Gordon - Business & Economics - 362 pages
...been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition...physical difference between the white and black races. ... I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white...
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Turbulent Times

Allan H. Keith - History - 2002 - 76 pages
...jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and l will say in addition to this that there is a physical...difference between the white and black races which l believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality....
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The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s

H.W. Brands - History - 2002 - 383 pages
..."There is a physical difference between the black and white races which I believe will 218 for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together" — Lincoln flirted with the idea of sending American...
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Chaim Perelman

Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 186 pages
...or qualifying them to hold office, or having them marry with white people. I will say in addition, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races, which I suppose will forever forbid the two races living together upon terms of social and political equality,...
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