 | Eric Foner - 1999 - 452 strani
...he drove home the point by choosing as his example a black woman: "In some respects she is certainly not my equal, but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hand . . . she is my equal and the equal of all others." As for European immigrants,... | |
 | Digital Scanning Inc - 1999 - 278 strani
...position, the negro should be denied every thing. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone. I am now in my fiftieth year, and I certainly never... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - 2003 - 220 strani
...marry with negroes! He will have it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against that counterfeit logic which concludes that, because I...my equal; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of any one else, she is my equal, and the equal of... | |
 | Jan Lewis, Peter S. Onuf - 1999 - 300 strani
...more or less the same phrasing before: on 26 June 1857, for example, he said: "I protest against that counterfeit logic which concludes that, because I...for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife." See Mario Cuomo and Harold Holzer, eds., Lincoln on Democracy (New York, 1990), 90. 14. Cuomo and Holzer,... | |
 | Lowell Harrison - 2000 - 346 strani
..."an indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races" (405). Lincoln protested "against that counterfeit logic which concludes that, because I...my equal; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of anyone else, she is my equal, and the equal of... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 strani
...marry with negroes! He will have it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against that counterfeit logic which concludes that, because I...either, I can just leave her alone. In some respects she is certainly not my equal; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without... | |
 | Christopher M. Duncan - 2000 - 274 strani
...similarity of his position and the Southern Agrarians quite manifest. Lincoln claims: "Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that...want her for a wife. I need not have her for either ... in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of any... | |
 | David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - 1998 - 607 strani
...position the black should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a Negro woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. [cheers and laughter.] I have never had the least apprehension that I or my friends would marry Negroes... | |
 | Thomas G. West - 1997 - 244 strani
...says, 'You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.'" Speaking of a black slave, Lincoln said: "In some respects she certainly is not my equal; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of anyone else, she is my equal, and the equal of... | |
 | George P. Fletcher - 2003 - 308 strani
...Dred Scott decision, Lincoln explicitly refers to the dignity and inherent equality of black women: In some respects she certainly is not my equal; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of any one else, she is my equal, and the equal of... | |
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Now, I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just leave her alone. 
