Ifs Quote by Bryan Stevenson

Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American…

— David Swanson

Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets…

— Rush Limbaugh

The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and…

— Ulysses S. Grant

It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which…

— John C. Calhoun

“I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits…

— Russell Freedman

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it…

— Abraham Lincoln

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows…

— Henry David Thoreau

I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the…

— Dave Zirin

“The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“Slavery was a tradition embedded in the culture of the South and played a key economic role there. Its economic importance was the key…

— Andrew P. Napolitano