 | Carl Sandburg - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 804
...'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.1 When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all...created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.1 When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence... | |
 | Daniel J. Tichenor - 2009 - عدد الصفحات: 395
...it 4all men are created equal, except negroes? When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 4all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense for loving liberty." See Lincoln... | |
 | Avard Tennyson Fairbanks - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 184
...could anyone who abhors the oppressing of Negros be in favor of degrading classes of white people? As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it, 'all men are created equal except Negros.' When the know-nothings get control,... | |
 | Andrew Carroll - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...are created equal. We now 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, foreigners and Catholics.'" Discrimination makes all of us Poorer. We cannot have a prosperous democracy... | |
 | Charles M. Hubbard - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 270
...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,...foreigners, and catholics" When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty — to Russia,... | |
 | Eric H. Walther - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 240
...created equal, except negroes,' " lamented Lincoln. If nativists took over the government, he prophesied, "it will read 'all men are created equal except negroes,...foreigners , and catholics.' When it comes to this," Lincoln concluded, "I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving... | |
 | 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...Know-Nothing. . . . How could I be?" "When the KnowNothings get control, it [the Declaration of Independence] will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes,...foreigners, and catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia,... | |
 | Thomas Maier - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 748
...Bill of Rights, he warned, might be endangered. "When the Know-Nothings get control," Lincoln cracked, "It will read 'All men are created equal, except Negroes, and foreigners and Catholics.'" Within the Kennedys' own state of Massachusetts, the Know-Nothings were quite successful, electing... | |
 | Forrest Church - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 196
...was foremost in his mind. "Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid," he wrote in 1855. "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' " Lincoln adopted this refrain... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - عدد الصفحات: 532
...Romanism," and found the Know-Nothings, even more than the Calhounites, a standing repudiation of what, "as a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equaL'" That had not prevented the Know-Nothings from trying to recruit him in 1854 as a state legislative... | |
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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. 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... 
