“More African American adults are under correctional control today – in prison or jail, on probation or parole – than were enslaved… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only… — Andrew Potter Copy Share Image
“Louisa went about her duties at the hospital, trying not to dwell on the fact that this might be her last day… — David Healey Copy Share Image
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because,… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Thus the American people were maneuvered into a Civil War which they neither envisioned nor desired. They were manipulated by Masonic Canaanite… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
“The evolution of national unity and equal rights is all about what America represents as a nation today: a manifestation of the… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
“A South Carolina native, Miles was a lawyer, a mayor of Charleston, and a congressman. He was one of his state's "fire-eaters,"… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal problems such as we have never… — Alexander Guchkov Copy Share Image
“After being wounded and carried behind the lines on the night of May 2, Stonewall Jackson had his arm amputated, after which… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust… — Barry McCaffrey Copy Share Image
“I'm American. Like I told you. And I'm American and not something else because they failed that day. They couldn't do it… — Lance Weller Copy Share Image
“Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Drew Gilpin Faust) - Your Highlight on Location 51-51… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The curtains were not yet drawn and with the moonlight spreading across the room, I could see clearly. I undressed and slipped… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“We can take things as slowly as you want, but you know it’s too late now to change your mind, Pierce,” he… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Over the last 30 odd years, Democrats have moved to the right and the right has moved into the mental hospital. So… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I dream that someday the United States will be on the side of the peasants in some civil war. I dream that… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Air power and military are meant to fight the enemy and not your own citizens... How do you differentiate a Maoist?... It… — Kishore Chandra Deo Copy Share Image
Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union… — Allen West Copy Share Image
Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the post-Civil War home of Jefferson Davis to beaver control. — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
If President Obama or any president ever attempts gun confiscation in America, there should be and will be a second civil war. — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum]. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War. — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of… — Sarah Emma Edmonds Copy Share Image
General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war, only patriots -… — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
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