Built Quote by Rush Limbaugh

I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the…

— Dave Zirin

There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be…

— Bryan Stevenson

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

“Slavery was a tradition embedded in the culture of the South and played a key economic role there. Its economic importance was the key…

— Andrew P. Napolitano

“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 exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

— Andrew Johnson

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their…

— Woodrow Wilson

The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor…

— John Coleman

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

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their…

— William Loughton Smith

Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America. Before them…

— Lorne Greene

We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take New York,…

— Thurgood Marshall