“Emancipation Proclamation, which gave federal legal status to slaves, was in fact an executive order. And,” — Bobby Akart Copy Share Image
Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!” — Marck E. Estemil Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals. — Kurt Vonnegut 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
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins,… — Lyndon B Johnson 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“I am releasing everything so I can be nothing—or perhaps, everything.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin. — Lester Roloff Copy Share Image
Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation,… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that… — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“Slavery didn’t end when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Slavery still happens. Right now, today, this very second, there’s someone in chains,… — Jack Wilder Copy Share Image
“Same difference,” he said. “The South lost and the North won. Abraham Lincoln came and gave the Emancipation Proclamation.” “The Gettysburg Address,”… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
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