Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together. — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
“Why do they call them civil wars when they always are so extraordinarily uncivil?” — Elizabeth Fitch Copy Share Image
We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Here's the problem of the Democratic Party... There's no Breitbart. The problem in the Democratic Party? They haven't had a civil war. — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that… — Margaret Junkin Preston Copy Share Image
In 'The Birth of a Nation,' Griffith made audiences see the Civil War through his eyes - the eyes of the son… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
“As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of this tragic event in the American past, democracy is no longer being threatened by secession,… — John Fea Copy Share Image
“While the post-Civil War southerners were pushing as fast as they could into the New South, were grasping Yankee dollars with enthusiasm,… — Frank E. Vandiver Copy Share Image
People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
All that rejection from Republicans has a bit of a racist element. It was very necessary to have a black president, and… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
“Five years later, 750,000 Americans were dead. But the fact that such carnage had been wreaked for a cause that Ulysses S.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Imagine us saying to children: "In the last fifty or so years, the human race has become aware of a great deal… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Lincoln embraced the Declaration of Independence before and during the Civil War to justify both prosecuting the war and abolishing slavery, Wilson… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“So the women would not forgive. Their passion remained intact, carefully guarded and nurtured by the bitter knowledge of all they had… — Howard Bahr Copy Share Image
“far as General Johnston is concerned, I think Davis did him a great injustice in this particular. I had know the general… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
