 | David S. Reynolds - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 292 pages
...of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference. I . . . am in favor of the race to which I belong, having the superior position. 41 Clearly, Whitman underwent, along with much of white America, a difficult reassessment of his relationship... | |
 | David S. Reynolds - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 288 pages
...of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I ... am in favor of the race to which I belong, having the superior position.43 Clearly, Whitman underwent, along with much of white America, a difficult reassessment... | |
 | Robert R. Williams - Philosophy - 2001 - 300 pages
...forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well...which I belong having the superior position. . . . I agree with Judge Douglas that he [the black] is not my equal in many respects,—certainly not in color,... | |
 | Sam Wineburg - Education - 2001 - 278 pages
...of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I ... am in favor of the race to which I belong, having...superior position. I have never said anything to the contrary.1 How are we to regard these words? At the very least they complicate the image of Lincoln... | |
 | Chester W. Hartman - Social Science - 2001 - 456 pages
...difference between the two which . . . will probably forever forbid their living together... and I am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position." a. True b. False 3. White Americans forced roaming Indians to settle down and farm. a. True 4. Who... | |
 | Eugene H. Berwanger - Frontier and pioneer life - 2002 - 196 pages
...differences between the two races prevented equality. One race must necessarily be supreme and, "I am in favor of the race to which I belong, having the superior position." The next month at Clinton the senatorial candidate reprimanded Douglas for his constant remarks about... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - History - 2004 - 372 pages
...forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well...Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong rumng the superior position. I have never said anything to the contrary, but I hold that, notwithstanding... | |
 | John Spiller - History - 2005 - 356 pages
...have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races ... I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong, having the superior position . . . but . . . there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights... | |
 | Jeremy Roberts - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 120 pages
...directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position . . . ," he said, "but I hold that notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the... | |
 | Douglas Wilson - Christianity and culture - 2005 - 138 pages
...introduce political and social equality between the white and black races . . . inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well...superior position. I have never said anything to the contrary."8 Let this condemnation here serve as a condemnation of this view, and any view similar to... | |
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I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality;... 
