The first Werner Goldberg Award goes to President Obama for playing to the public with President Lincoln as an ikon and making quotes, making certain not to mention this one:
From Lincoln in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates:
" I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality 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 ... I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything. 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."
Debate at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858
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