Civil war Quote by John Brown Baldwin

But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is any other…

— John Brown Baldwin

African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very…

— Laurence M. Keitt

“African slavery lacked two elements that made American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes…

— Howard Zinn

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

— Jefferson Davis

This country was formed for the white not for the black man. And looking upon African slavery from the same stand-point, as held by…

— John Wilkes

“To have a museum chronicling the great crime that was African slavery in the United States of America would be to acknowledge that the…

— Susan Sontag

Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right…

— Ben Lindsey

From an evolutionary standpoint you can't just wipe everything out and start over, and I don't think you can do it in the school…

— Bill Nye

For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other…

— Anonymous

In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is…

— John Muir

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely…

— John Updike

From a vocal standpoint, Glenn Hughes is just a god.

— John Corabi