...of universal political consent as the "sheet-anchor of American republicanism," and his statement, "No man is good enough to govern another without that other's consent," became a kind of higher law motto for the first president of the NAACP, Moorfield Storey, who, like...

...Pacific—Japan, Korea, and Russia. Judge Moorfield Storey and Filipinan Marcial Lichauco quoted Abraham Lincoln: "No man is good enough to govern another without that other's consent." And Lincoln had rejected slave owner arguments that "the inferior race are to be treated with as much...

...of the equal rights of men, as I have, in part, stated them; ours began by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant and vicious to...system, you would always keep them ignorant and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser, and...

...denial of the equal rights of men as 1 have, in part, stated them; ours began by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant and vicious to...system, you would always keep them ignorant and vicious. We proposed to give all a chanee; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, (he ignorant wiser, and...

...of the equal rights of men, as I have, in part, stated them; ours began by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant and vicious to...system, you would always keep them ignorant and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser, and...

...based, practically, on the denial of the equal rights of men. Ours began by affirming those rights. They said ' some men are too ignorant and vicious to share in government.' ' Possibly so,1 said we, ' and by your system you would always keep them ignorant and vicious. We proposed to...