“For African Americans, war commenced not in 1861, but in 1661, when the Virginia Colony began passing America's first black codes, the charter documents of a slave society that rendered blacks a permanent servile class and whites a mass aristocracy.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
