[Repeat Offender]

"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway 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 negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything." Abraham Lincoln

Another "equivalency" to Lincoln......both are racists

[publius321]

Right. The famous Lincoln/Douglas debates were in depth elucidations of his opposition toslavery; however, he was of the popular thinking of that time that white men were superior. But he still believed that slavery was evil

The distinction is often not made by historians. One cannot help but think what they think about superiority unless they are swayed by empirical evidence.

But he did believe that people he may have erroneously believed to be “inferior” still had the God given right by their Creator to inalienable rights as enumerated in the constitution. He also said that “if slavery is not an evil, nothing is”.