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* [[Abraham Lincoln]], while staunchly anti-slavery, did believe that white people tend to be smarter than black people.
** In his own words from the 1858 "Great Debates" with Stephen A. Douglas, "I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, or to intermarry with white people, and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the two races which I believe will forever forbid the two from living together on terms of social and political equality." Though, a number of his papers that were published posthumously suggest that those were not his beliefs, but he had to work within the political reality of the time; he was regarded as one of the most cunning politicians of his era after all. His friendship with Frederick Douglass undoubtedly helped to change his views.
** Lincoln was not even so thoroughly anti-slavery; his support, or at least lack of opposition, toward the Corwin Amendment paints the picture of a man whose first and only interest was in the preservation of the Union, with slavery and abolition alike serving as potential means to that end.
** Lincoln also had a chequered history with the Indians, participating in the Trail Of Tears and imposing harsh measures on the Lakota to win support from Midwestern homesteaders in the North.
* [[Winston Churchill]] was for a time a supporter of eugenics, but considered one of the great heroes of all time by many in America and Europe.
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