That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even… — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
“He was at last untrammelled by constitutional conditions and limitations, was free to carry the War into Africa. “Carthago est delenda” was… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Sumner’s mind keeping the peace abroad was connected with freeing the slaves at home. Repeatedly he tried to convince Lincoln that by… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!” — Marck E. Estemil Copy Share Image
I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Abraham Lincoln is usually regarded as the greatest of all American presidents. When experts rated the presidents on the desire to please… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Emancipation Proclamation, which gave federal legal status to slaves, was in fact an executive order. And,” — Bobby Akart Copy Share Image
“Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, but prior to signing the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln signed the Emancipation… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
This is a deeply uncanny and very troubling development, it exists, and it wants to take us back. It wants to take… — Mark Crispin Miller Copy Share Image
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