Civil war Quote by David Herbert Donald

“He was at last untrammelled by constitutional conditions and limitations, was free to carry the War into Africa. “Carthago est delenda” was thenceforth ever…

— Archibald Henry Grimke

“Lincoln, who had a personal aversion to blacks and feared they could never be absorbed into a white society, wanted to see them settled…

— James A. Michener

"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

...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free…

— Sheldon Vanauken

“Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind…

— Susie Larson

“Upon reflection, Henry found it difficult to disagree with Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune and frequent critic of the Lincoln administration,…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development…

— A. Philip Randolph

“The growing spirit of kindliness and reconciliation between the North and South after the frightful differences of a generation ago ought to be a…

— W.E.B. DuBois

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

— Malcolm X

“The few and scattered references of freedpeople suffering from the challenges of emancipation have been overlooked because these episodes do not fit into the…

— Jim Downs

“Many also forget that the international campaign in solidarity with the Union under the Lincoln presidency rallied at a time when it was entirely…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow Americans to…

— Mitch Landrieu