Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858, Volume 2Houghton Mifflin, 1928 |
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 249 - I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world -enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites...
Página 250 - Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this, and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of whites will not.
Página 581 - Put this and that together, and we have another nice little niche, which we may, ere long, see filled with another Supreme Court decision, declaring that the Constitution of the United States does not permit a state to exclude slavery from its limits. And this may. especially be expected if the doctrine of ' ' care not whether slavery be voted down or voted up" shall gain upon the public mind sufficiently to give promise that such a decision can be maintained when made.
Página 673 - I will say then that 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, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races...
Página 443 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Página 673 - 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. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
Página 608 - I have only to say, let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man — this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position — discarding our standard that we have left us.
Página 218 - Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Página 82 - I have heard something said on this and a former occasion about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West to which I owe any allegiance.
Página 354 - As a nation we began by declaring that " all men are created equal." We now practically read it " all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-nothings get control, it will read " all men are created equal, except negroes and foreigners and Catholics.