Civil war Quote by Bryce Pinkham

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

The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was…

— G. Edward Griffin

[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was…

— G. Edward Griffin

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed…

— Opal Tometi

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

Slavery ended, but the idea of race lived on.

— Michelle Alexander

“History textbooks still present Union and Confederate sympathizers as equally idealistic. The North fought to hold the Union together, while the South fought, according…

— James W. Loewen

I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I…

— Zach Braff

Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.

— Harry Belafonte

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

— Ron Paul