Abraham Lincoln Equality Quotations

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

Four score and seven years ago, our father brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,