Being Quote by Henry Louis Gates

Abraham Lincoln was interested in, in saving the Union. Well, most negroes have been tricked into thinking that Lincoln was a negro lover whose…

— Malcolm X

I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and the Civil…

— Steven Spielberg

Many heroic things happened during slavery. And remember that there was a national movement away from it even at the time. The era of…

— Wynton Marsalis

Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others…

— Ronald Reagan

Whatever Lincoln's racial views, which are not totally modern and egalitarian in many ways, he believes blacks should have this natural right to improve…

— Eric Foner

“Lincoln, who had a personal aversion to blacks and feared they could never be absorbed into a white society, wanted to see them settled…

— James A. Michener

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy…

— Henry Louis Gates

Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development…

— A. Philip Randolph

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good,…

— Steven Spielberg

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

Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his…

— Eric Foner

Out of the west came Lincoln, and all that he had he gave to the preservation of the Union that had been bought so…

— Gutzon Borglum