Abraham Quote by Corrine Brown

President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, but prior to signing the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Act on…

— Al N. Green

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

— Henry Charles Carey

“Same difference,” he said. “The South lost and the North won. Abraham Lincoln came and gave the Emancipation Proclamation.” “The Gettysburg Address,” Mrs. Anderson…

— J.M. Darhower

. . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down.

— Francis James Grimke

Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated emancipation plan…

— Allen C. Guelzo

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come…

— Wendell Willkie

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

Slavery didn't end in 1865; it just evolved.

— Bryan Stevenson