The edge of the conflict swayed to and fro, with wild whirlpools and eddies. At times I saw around me more of… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The story of emancipation, going really back to the founding of the country all the way to the civil war is very… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
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I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The obligation d'âme meant that his only allegiance was to Felix, making them a separate kingdom of two, with Felix as king… — Sarah Monette Copy Share Image
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“For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
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“Lee crushed this idea in a few words. “If I took your advice, the men would be without rations and under no… — Charles Bracelen Flood Copy Share Image
“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
“Sister was inspired by Asia Booth Clarke’s personal memoirs. Author, historical scholar and storyteller Jane Singer has masterfully imagined the family dynamics… — Jane Singer Copy Share Image
We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
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I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
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If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“At least 600,000 men died in the Civil War. Major battles numbered the dead in the thousands; even minor skirmishes killed hundreds...Then… — Phillip Shaw Pauadan Copy Share Image
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
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Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching 'Pan's Labyrinth:' An anti-fascist fairy tale set… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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![“That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off of the miniseries, and I played Col. Mosby, a very dangerous, Southern colonel in post-Civil War, wandering the West.” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f00/eric-mccormack-2915_adults_that-was-my-big-break-lonesome-dove-my-f_259225.jpg)
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