"I am not now, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social or political equality of the white and black races. I am not now nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor of intermarriages with white people. There is a physical difference between the white and the black races which will forever forbid the two races living together on social or political equality. There must be a position of superior and inferior, and I am in favor of assigning the superior position to the white man"
-Abraham Lincoln
"it's me" :
Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858
-Abraham Lincoln
"it's me" :
Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858