Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 1702 |
AUTHOR: | Abraham Lincoln (180965) |
QUOTATION: | I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone. |
ATTRIBUTION: | Lincoln used similar wording in a speech in Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 1857: Now I protest against that counterfeit logic which concludes that, because I do not want a black woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just leave her alone.Collected Works, vol. 2, p. 405 (1953). |
SUBJECTS: | Slavery |