I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.

Abraham Lincoln

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Equality

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Abraham Lincoln

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

Occupation

American President National leader Politician

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United States

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Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio. 17 Sept. 1859, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 17, 1859." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, preface.

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From California to the New York Island,
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

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Language
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Time
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Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of the Species. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 3.

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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

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Time
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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "I Have a Dream." March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 28 Aug. 1963, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, USA.