Abraham Quote by Corrine Brown

The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic…

— Melville Fuller

The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the matter.…

— Malcolm X

Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation, to the…

— Rafael Cruz

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now,…

— James McGreevey

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

— Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In the Emancipation…

— Eric Foner

The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to…

— Aberjhani

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will…

— Lyndon B Johnson

If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.

— Malcolm X

“Emancipation Proclamation, which gave federal legal status to slaves, was in fact an executive order. And,”

— Bobby Akart

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a…

— Anonymous

I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify…

— Abraham Lincoln