Civil war Quote by Howard Zinn

“But Roosevelt understood that the political costs of any public condemnation of Nazi persecution or any obvious effort to ease the entry of Jews…

— Erik Larson

“Just like in the old days before Roosevelt, segregationists were given the power to locally administer and racially discriminate the relief coming from these…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Abraham Lincoln would maintain that he had never been in favor “of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“He had compared the taxation to a form of slavery and had encouraged his fellow Jews to rise up against their oppressors.”

— Bill O'Reilly

Whatever Lincoln's racial views, which are not totally modern and egalitarian in many ways, he believes blacks should have this natural right to improve…

— Eric Foner

“Grant deserves an honored place in American history, second only to Lincoln for what he did for the freed slaves. He got the big…

— Ron Chernow

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

— Thomas Goodwin

“It was well understood that if by the teaching of history the white man could be further assured of his superiority and the Negro…

— Carter G. Woodson

“White people were, and are, astounded by the holocaust in Germany. They did not know that they could act that way. But I very…

— James Baldwin

“But one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.…

— Jessica James

“Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution.”

— Clint Johnson