Stephen Douglas Statue TO Be Removed ?

[AussieMick]

If Lincoln did say the words quoted, and I think we must accept that he did, then he was indeed expressing the same views as white supremacists. ..... but I suspect that at least 99.99 % of all white men worldwide at that time would have agreed with him.

On a similar issue, I suggest the same number of all men (regardless of colour or religion ) would have considered women as being inferior or less capable of functioning as human beings than men.

In other words, Lincoln's words in 1854 to a crowd of political men have minimal relevance to the man that he became as President .