I believe we should utilise any power we have for important issues that are bigger and beyond us. Whether it's with refugees… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Martial sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six… — Bill Engvall Copy Share Image
We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into… — Jay Rockefeller Copy Share Image
This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
How is this any different than the big boat argument of people when it came to African-Americans after the Civil War, decided,… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“Conservatives [in post-Civil War America] blamed liberals for pushing blacks ahead of their proper station in life and placing blacks in positions… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, better known as the American Colonization Society was a group… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
“Each of you, for himself or herself, by himself or herself, and on his or her own responsibility, must speak. It is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In our humble12 opinion, the South in general’s attitude regarding the war and everything that came after needs a major paradigm shift.… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“The hardships of the Civil War were forgotten. But we will never forget that each of us was motivated by the firm… — Georgy Zhukov Copy Share Image
“All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“When they got to thew bottom of the stairwell, they stopped dead. Blay's father was facing off with a lesser, a Civil… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Awakened by artillery fire, the frightened Confederate recruits ran out of town, some still in their bedclothes. The Federals gave this embarrassing… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
“As a child of civil war, I disbelieve in structured learning—actually I believe that one can be an intellectual without being a… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“I feel proud that I have been counted worthy to have blood shed by a traitor, and to suffer torture at the… — Franklin Marion Havens Copy Share Image
God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
“This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
From space travel to organ transplants, one of the most important influences shaping the modern world is science. Amazingly, people who lived… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
“Guards punished anyone caught taking bones from the garbage by fastening the bone between his teeth, across his mouth, and then tying… — George Levy Copy Share Image
When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“For many Romans, civil war remained the war that dared not speak its name. The words bellum civile had to be weighed… — David Armitage Copy Share Image
I sometimes say the conflict in the work is the conflict of my own thoughts and anxieties. It's a civil war in… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
In glades they meet skull after skull Where pine cones lay-the rusted gun, Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat And… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Fight it must, but let that fight be not a civil war against its own blood kindred but against the dangerous foreign… — T. Lothrop Stoddard Copy Share Image
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“The terror and consternation of the Presidential couple may be imagined by anyone who has ever loved a child, and suffered that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
For over two centuries, each generation of Americans before us confronted and solved problems. They embraced opportunities and Americans have never had… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises:… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Steve Bannon is the biggest threat to democracy that we've faced since the Civil War, but in the Civil War the champion… — Van Jones Copy Share Image