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
During the Civil War, the United States government had organized new territories in the West at a cracking pace, both to keep… — Heather Cox Richardson 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
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
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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
And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
Moammar Gadhafi and the revolt against Gadhafi was not started by the United States. It was started by the Libyan people. And… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Republicans have reached out so much to black Republicans because it's part of our tradition. Blacks have been in this nation longer… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
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Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“Clara Barton was a famous Civil War nurse. When she began nursing, she used her own money for her supplies. She drove… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
“The profilers’ plan to coax me out of the woods resembled a comedy skit. During their search of my Cane Creek trailer,… — Eric Rudolph Copy Share Image
We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
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Memorial Day is rooted deep in American history and has spanned all of America's major wars since the Civil War. Originally called… — Michael Waltz 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
Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I hear a lot of talk about civil war. I'm concerned about that, of course. And I've talked to a lot of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd,… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Two World Wars are sufficient and we are the ones who supported this notion of a united Europe, so there would never… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
It's funny to see a film in Spain with a lot of violence because we don't have a lot of violence. Well,… — Javier Camara Copy Share Image
Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
“The most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being. Rather than trying to cut ourselves in two, we should cease… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I have members of my immediate family, and my wife's immediate family, who voted for Donald Trump, and now there's this gulf… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
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The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were… — David Letterman 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 - [Abraham] Lincoln was killed, Reconstruction came along, and all of that inequity was frozen in place and carried forward rather smugly. So I think the burden is now upon us…” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/607/george-saunders-317_abraham_i-ve-been-reading-about-and-writing-abou_3049163.jpg)
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