"Douglas, no man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs."
— Nigger

January 1, 1970

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William H. Seward (in or before 1861), a retort to Stephen A. Douglas on the Senate floor, after the Illinois senator used an offensive slur in a speech. As quoted in Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006), p. 163