When the white man governs himself, that is selfgovernment; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than selfgovernment — that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are... Our New Departure - Página 5por Moorfield Storey - 1901 - 43 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Lucas E. Morel - 2000 - 272 páginas
...anyone ever has to expressing the heart of the equality principle of the Declaration of Independence: "When the white man governs himself that is self-government;...is more than selfgovernment — that is despotism. . . . What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent.... | |
| Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 páginas
...to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself that is self-government;...is more than self-government — that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are created equal;" and that... | |
| Bertrand Russell - 2001 - 532 páginas
...to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself, that is selfgovernment;...is more than self-government — that is despotism. One passage is specially suggestive of Lincoln's later speeches: Little by little, but steadily as... | |
| Janet Benge, Geoff Benge - 2001 - 228 páginas
...total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself and also governs another man, that...is more than self-government — that is despotism. If the Negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are created equal" and that... | |
| Joseph L. Graves - 2001 - 278 páginas
...that slavery was incompatible with American democracy: "When the white man governs himself," he said, "that is self-government; but when he governs himself, and also governs another man . . . that is despotism. If the Negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that 'all men are created equal,... | |
| Joy Hakim - 2003 - 194 páginas
...self-government is right, absolutely and eternally right," said Lincoln, but that was not the point. "When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...is more than self-government; that is despotism." Wherever they spoke crowds came; thousands of people poured into small prairie towns. Perhaps they... | |
| Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui, Ricardo René Laremont - 2002 - 240 páginas
.... ," New York Tones Magazine, April 8, 1962, p. 28. 31. "We hold with Abraham Lincoln, that '. . . when the white man governs himself, that is self-government,...is more than self-government — that is despotism Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and under a just God cannot long retain... | |
| Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 532 páginas
...Is not slavery "a total destruction of self-government, to say that he too shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself that is self-government;...more than self-government — that is despotism." Popular sovereignty thus became a means for ending some men's freedom. It could be argued, in reply,... | |
| Joy Hakim - 2003 - 438 páginas
...self-government is right, absolutely and eternally right," says Lincoln, but that is not the point. "When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...is more than self-government; that is despotism." Lincoln puts the issue in words that everyone can understand. He has none of the anger of the abolitionists;... | |
| Linda S. Bishai - 2004 - 194 páginas
...response declared that the American protection of self-government was an individual not a collective one: "When the white man governs himself . . . that is...man, that is more than self-government — that is despotism."21 The issue of individual political freedom was not at stake for residents of the Southern... | |
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