...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...

...senate. "There is a physical difference between the white and black races," he said that day in 1858, "which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality."46 The mixed theme Harding expressed in Birmingham — political and economic equality but...

...argue over the future of the South, with Lincoln's views very much echoing those of Dixon: I believe that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which will forever forbid their living together on terms of political and social equality, (p. 45) The negro...

...example of the corruption of man left to himself. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1810, vol. xiv, p. 750): ... there is a physical difference between the white and...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,...

...southern phenomenon. In a campaign speech against Stephen Douglas in 1858, Abraham Lincoln opined, "there is a physical difference between the white...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,...

...He quotes Abraham Lincoln, the "Great Emancipator," who was offended when accused of abolitionism: "There is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality" (ibid, p. 79)....

...said, there was a "physical difference between the white and black races which . . . will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality," Lincoln went on record as favoring whites over blacks. "There must be," he said during his campaign...

...explaining that he opposed equal rights for free blacks, and that physical differences "will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality." Likewise, when Douglas alleged that Lincoln's "House Divided" statements were just a cover for his...

...essential inferiority (even animality) of the emancipated slaves. As Dixon's Abraham Lincoln explains, "There is a physical difference between the white and black races which will forever forbid their living together on terms of political and social equality" (45). This insistence...

...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...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,...