Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Everybody betrayed her, so why expect otherwise? But it turned out that distrust could fool you and endanger you, just as trust… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
“We live a life of privilege. That doesn’t mean we can literally switch off these women, whose only fault was being born… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
The fall of Eastern Aleppo marks a watershed in the five-year Syrian civil war. Opposition forces first took part of the city… — Margaret Warner Copy Share Image
We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights. — Gary Rossington Copy Share Image
For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
Sir: This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter. The city, with its girdle of encampments, presents a… — Thaddeus S. C. Lowe Copy Share Image
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is… — Elizabeth Van Lew Copy Share Image
“In the 1800s, the United States was divided over the issue of slavery. The North wanted the country to end all slavery.… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
“This book would be a great addition to a classroom library, especially considering its emphases on timeless and critical topics like discrimination… — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The Captain, so close as he was, didn’t warrant their attention. Even a fly on a horse’s hindquarters gets a tail whip.… — Greever Williams Copy Share Image
I grew up in Georgia and I think if you're raised in the South it's where a lot of the war was… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
“Spirit photos were sometimes made to remember someone who had died. During the American Civil War, when hundreds of thousands of people… — Avi Copy Share Image
“Entertaining is a way of life for the Southern girl. We’ve been doing it for over three hundred years now, and we’re… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
“This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“The boy went back to his family there, in the distance, in a distance he did not find there in the distance.… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“The histories and tragedies of Shakespeare that Lincoln loved most dealt with themes that would resonate to a president in the midst… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Your daughter is ugly. She knows loss intimately, carries whole cities in her belly. As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her. She… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Flag committee chairman Miles did not agree with that sentiment. He opposed adoption of this design and wrote:"There is no propriety in… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
“Bella Swan: Jasper? Are you sure there's nothing I can do to help? Jasper Hale: Well just your presence alone, your scent,… — David Slade Copy Share Image
“On this night of the Harvest Moon. They tossed bones into the “Bone Fire” and asked the yellow moon to shine its… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
“(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Going back to South Sudan after the independence took place was deeply emotional for me because I had gone through the civil… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all… — Albert G. Brown Copy Share Image
“They're right. We're not fighting for the people anymore, Falcon... Look at us. We're just fighting.” — Mike Millar Copy Share Image
I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and… — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.” — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“We had fed the heart on fantasies. / The heart’s grown brutal from the fare.” From “Meditations in Time of Civil War,”… — James Thompson Copy Share Image
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
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