Civil Quotes

The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the rebels. If Robert E.Lee had stayed with his country the story would have been different.

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

The terrorists want civil war. Al-Qaida is attacking Shiites. The Shiite militias are taking revenge on the Sunnis. And the Sunnis are become more extremist, with some joining al-Qaida.

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...

Are you a communist?""No I am an anti-fascist""For a long time?""Since I have understood fascism.

In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece ofspecious humbug designed to conceal it's desire for economic control ofthe Southern states.

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?

I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .

Love is a better way.

...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.

Racism is a disease of white people

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

Only a "dry as dust" religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.

Owning a drone does not a pilot make.

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

Trying to erase, hide, discredit, degrade, and suppress a writer's work, merit, voice, and influence―is unconstitutional. Censorship only exists to protect corruption.

A freedom given up is not so easily regained.

Eastward and westward storms are breaking, --great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.

Lush, detailed, total-immersion storytelling.–Kirkus Review

People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true.

A tense account of the perils facing those who sought freedom in the lead-up to the Civil War.

It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted.

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell

You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.

In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.

Since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.

Ignorance rises in our counity because people do not utlize their common knowledge to express their thoughts to others that can be considered fair and rational.

Ignorance rises in our community because people do not utlize their common knowledge to express their thoughts to others that can be considered fair and rational.

Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological.

Because of fear, people who have civil rights can’t use them

I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.

We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.

The war dragged on, as wars tend to do.

Pick a side? You done picked the wrong side.

You help us, they’ll lock you up for the rest of your life.