Rebellion Quote by Archibald Henry Grimke

“The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.”

— Ulysses S. Grant

“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

"We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably a element of strength to those who had their service, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn…

— N. K. Jemisin

“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn finer…

— N.K. Jemisin

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

— Abraham Lincoln

“We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable, we, or…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

— George Haven Putnam

“Do not surrender to any master; that would be slavery. Surrender to yourself, for that would be victory.”

— Gian Kumar

“Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.”

— Patti Smith

“Give a slave slaves, and he will support slavery.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov