...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...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. Now I pass on to consider one or two more of these little follies. The judge is woefully at fault when...

...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...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." In this language Lincoln recognizes the fact that the Negro is conspicuously inferior to the white man,...

...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...equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man."7 by insinuating that Lincoln and the Republican party favored negro equality, social as well...

...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...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." 2 by insinuating that Lincoln and the Republican party favored negro equality, social as well as political,...

...in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ... In the right to eat the bread without the leave of...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." "To satisfy the Southerners," he said to a New York audience in 1859, "we must cease to call slavery...

..."I agree with Judge Douglas that the negro is not my equal in many respects. But in the right to eat bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." When it finally came to a vote, it was found that Douglas was elected senator, but by a close count....

...intellectual 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...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." These debates made Lincoln widely known. He accepted invitations to speak in Ohio, New York, and 235...

...But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, \J he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." This much-quoted statement, generally given to show the innate principles of freedom and justice which...

...other respects ; still, in the right to put into his mouth the bread that his own hands have earned, he is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." It was the decision of the Supreme Court that a slave-owner could go to a free state and take his negro...

...in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he...of Judge Douglas and the equal of every living man. Again, at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858, replying to Douglas, he said : — I will say then...