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  • Essay / The Minority Law Students' Association: Minority Law...

    Blacks were thought to have thicker skin and thicker skulls than whites. Suggesting that they were less sensitive to pain and less able to think abstractly. Even Abraham Lincoln believed that they were inferior to the white man, once stating: "There is a physical difference between the white and black races which, I believe, will forever prohibit the two races from living together in terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot live thus, as long as they remain together, there must be a position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of the superior position be attributed to white people.