How would of Lincoln felt about MLK espousing equal rights from his

memorial. He wanted him deported to Africa? "Ne g ro equality. Fudge! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?"
Lincoln - September 1859
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"Let us be brought to believe that it is morally right, and at the same time favorable to, or at least not against, our interest to transfer the African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it, however great the task may be."
Lincoln June 1857
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"I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of ne g roes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people"
Lincoln - September 1858
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