Christian Quote by Angelina Grimke

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their…

— Woodrow Wilson

The question of what actually caused the Civil War is secondary to the result of the Civil War, which is that after the war…

— Corey Stewart

Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion…

— Hinton Rowan Helper

..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves,…

— Daniel Webster

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.

— William H. Seward

I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to leave and…

— David Swanson

The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor…

— John Coleman

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

— Margaret Mitchell

“Having preserved the Union and saved white workers from competing with slave labor, the North could magnanimously acquiesce to such Confederate meretriciousness and the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“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

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

— Gerrit Smith

“Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes and interpretations…

— Andrew Himes