...are created equal" they meant all men, black as well as white. They did not mean to assert, he said, "the obvious untruth, that all were then actually...confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no such power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of...

...liberty and the pursuit of happiness." This they said, and this meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying...equality, nor yet, that they were about to confer such a boon. In fact they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right,...

...Emancipation, in the broadest sense of the term, is what he believed the Declaration of Independence did: "declare the right so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit . . . augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere." (Basier,...

...liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying...equality, nor yet, that they were about to confer such boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast...

...defined...in what respects they did consider all men created equal... They did not intend to assert...that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet, that they were about to confer it.. .upon them. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast...

...generation had simply stated the right of all human beings to equal treatment in basic matters and expected "that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit." While not immediately challenging white supremacy, Lincoln's restatement of the ideals of the Revolution...

...They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, or yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In tact they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement...

...liberty and the pursuit of happiness." This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying...boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. They meant to set up a standard...

...assertion of human equality in the Declaration of Independence: They (the drafters) did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying...they were about to confer it immediately upon them. Indeed they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right so that the...

...are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' . . . They meant simply to declare the right, so the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit." SEWARD, TOO, would condemn the Dred Scott decision in a sensational oration on the Senate floor, accusing...