Believe Quote by Abraham Lincoln

We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take New York,…

— Thurgood Marshall

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and…

— John Shelton Reed

what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

— Margaret Mitchell

The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none,…

— Zora Neale Hurston

The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as…

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with…

— Arthur Fremantle

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery…

— Angelina Grimke

There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell…

— Robert E. Lee

“North-South imbalances and the exploitation of men and raw materials, combined with the resignation of the peoples of the North, produce a much more…

— Tariq Ramadan

Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their…

— William Loughton Smith