Note 90 — Chapter IV · ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE ARGUMENT FROM DEFINITION
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Cf. the remark in “Notes for Speeches” (Ibid., pp. 497-98): “Suppose it is true that the Negro is inferior to the white in the gifts of nature; is it not the exact reverse of justice that the white should for that reason take from the Negro any of the little which he has had given to him?”