Abraham Lincoln, the epitome of white supremacy. 🤦🏿 pic.twitter.com/QWOULOb1hM
— 🏴☠️Tommy Gunzz 🏴☠️ (@bythenumbers101) March 20, 2025
Abraham Lincoln's 4th Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, 1858:
I will say then that I am not nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and politically quality of the white and black races that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes nor of qualifying them to hold office nor to intermarry with white people and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races from living together on terms of social and political equality and in as much as they cannot so live while they do remain together there must be the position of Superior and inferior and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy Basler, Ed., 1953, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press.
The above quote is from Lincoln and Douglas's 4th Debate in Charleston, Illinois, 1858, where Lincoln opens up with the above remark. It's worth reading in full.
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