290 Quotes About Civil-war
- Author Michael Shaara
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A Frenchman may fight for France, but the American fights for mankind, for freedom; for the people, not the land.
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- Author Nikki Giovanni
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The South lost ... and that is good ... and that hateful flag needs to come down ... and reparations need to be offered and if none of that can happen ... well ... let there be poetry
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- Author James Thomas Kesterson Jr
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There was never a civil war in America. A civil war is a fight for power within a country. The south wanted their independence from the United States of America because they were being treated unfairly by the U.S. government. So, there was no civil war, it was the 2nd American revolution that had nothing to do with freeing the slaves.
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- Author James Thomas Kesterson Jr
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Freeing the slaves was a strategic military plan implemented to persuade the millions of slaves in the south to rise up and help the north defeat the south who wanted to secede from the U.S. because they, like the British colonist before them, were being taxed and treated unfairly by tyrants in the U.S. government.
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- Author Hélène A. Guerber
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We are told that in the course of this interview Stephens, seeing Lincoln not willing to grant the terms he asked, urged that even Charles I made certain concessions. To this...Lincoln answered: "I am not strong history; I depend mainly on Secretary Seward for that. All I remember of Charles is that he lost his head.
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- Author Hélène A. Guerber
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We are told that in the course of this interview Stephens, seeing Lincoln not willing to grant the terms he asked, urged that even Charles I made certain concessions. To this...Lincoln answered: "I am not strong on history; I depend mainly on Secretary Seward for that. All I remember of Charles is that he lost his head.
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- Author Nancy B. Brewer
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Like the magnolia tree, She bends with the wind,Trials and tribulation may weather her, Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms, See her standing there, like steel, With her roots forever buried,Deep in her Southern soil.
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- Author Nancy B. Brewer
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Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.
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- Author Nancy B. Brewer
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Today’s breakfast consist of rice and a piece of bread fried in a bit of salt pork grease. At least I have my memories of grand banquets and fine foods, but this is all the children have ever known. I suppose it is best not to have anything to compare.
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