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In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it… — Miriam Makeba
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students. — Constance Baker Motley
There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners… — Flannery O'Connor
Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies. — Bill Hicks
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real… — Paul D. Boyer
Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern… — Sam Houston
Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in… — G. Edward Griffin
If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the… — G. Edward Griffin
Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and "had no law… — Eustace Mullins
The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was enacted in 1865 by martial law. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted in 1868 by… — Eustace Mullins
The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched. — Eustace Mullins
Thus the American people were maneuvered into a Civil War which they neither envisioned nor desired. They were manipulated by Masonic Canaanite conspirators working together… — Eustace Mullins
The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of… — Isham G. Harris
I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech and… — Rose O'Neal Greenhow
Let me tell you what is coming.... Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of the bayonet... You… — Sam Houston
I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you don't get married… — Condoleezza Rice
The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost. — Paul Washer
It is the secret life that sustains me now, and as I reach the top of that bridge I say it in a whisper, I… — Pat Conroy
Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own… — Josh Schwartz
If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because… — Unknown Author
I am grateful for the support of those who want to see more women in Congress to better represent our country and provide leadership and… — Martha McSally
The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can… — Thaddeus Stevens
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture… — Thaddeus Stevens

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