Equal Quote by William H. Seward Download Open image “Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.” — William H. Seward ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Equal Hair Natural Natural rights Nature Rights States
Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such… — Lyman Trumbull Copy Share Image
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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
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There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern,… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
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This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
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Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
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