Every man, black, white or yellow, has a mouth to be fed and two hands with which to feed it, and that bread should be allowed to go to that mouth without controversy.
— Abraham Lincoln
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On the other hand, the free states carry on their government on the principle of the equality of men. We think slavery is morally wrong, and a direct violation of that principle. We all think it wrong. It is clearly proved, I think, by natural theology, apart from revelation. Every man, black, white or yellow, has a mouth to be fed and two hands with which to feed it, and that bread should be allowed to go to that mouth without controversy.
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• Source: Wikiquote: "Abraham Lincoln" (Quotes, 1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860):
Speech at Hartford, Connecticut (5 March 1860), Evening Press.)
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Name: Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner (November 1869), by Thomas Nast
Summary: Ulysses S. Grant
Description: English: Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner (November 1869), by Thomas Nast.
Date: 20 November 1869
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Author: Thomas Nast (1840–1902)
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