Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic Program. "We are prepared to offer a Democratic program based on Democratic principles and guaranteed by a record of Democratic performance. These principles are: A belief in equal rights to all men and special privilege to none; in an ever wider and more equitable distribution of the rewards of toil and industry; in the suppression of private monopoly as a thing indefensible and intolerable; in the largest liberty for every individual; in local self-government as against a centralized bureaucracy; in public office as a public trust; in a government administered without fear abroad or favoritism at home...
...dollar spent, but that far less popular form of economy which imitates the prudent householder in doing without the things one wishes but cannot at the time afford. Economy, however, begins at the wrong end when it attacks the pay of government employes, who are justly entitled to pay equal to that they would receive from private employers for similar work...
...certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal, except Negroes...
...When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read: 'As men are created equal except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.' When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty-to Russia, for instance, where depotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. "Your friend forever, "ABRAHAM LINCOLN...
...Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution. ... A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his name in a party primary as any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself and by nobody else...