Civil War Quotes - Page 35

• There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  War, Struggle, Snakes

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• We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's relentless advance and those who refuse to be silent partners in the destruction. More and more people of conscience are joining the effort to resist, but the time has come to make this struggle the central organizing principle of world civilizations.

  Al Gore

  War, Struggle, Civilization

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.294, Routledge

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• ...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and read and dreamed. But experience isn't something you go and get - it's a gift, and the only prerequisite for receiving it is that you be open to it. A closed soul can have the most immense adventures, go through a civil war or a trip to the moon, and have nothing to show for all that "experience"; whereas the open soul can do wonders with nothing.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  War, Adventure, Moon

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• In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Men, Presidential

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.628, Library of America

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• My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.

  Sam Houston

  War, People, Mad

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• Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing John Lennon's "Imagine." What you end up with is civil war, anarchy.

  Niall Ferguson

  War, Order, People

  "Imperial Denial". Interview with Nonna Gorilovkskaya, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

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• We're dealing with such enormous problems today that we have no other choice but to work together. If Iraq fails, if a religious civil war breaks out and the neighboring states are drawn into this conflict, if the Kurds declare independence and al-Qaida takes over an entire province - that's when the consequences will be dramatic.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Religious, War, Iraq

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Revenge, War, Joining

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering issues such as civil war, dependence on extractive industries, and bad governance, he argues that the strongest industrialized countries must enact a plan to help with international policies and standards.

  Amy Lockwood

  Country, War, Home

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• Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

  Nick Turse

  Real, War, Moon

  "American War Versus Real War" by Nick Turse, www.motherjones.com. July 13, 2010.

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• The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is a really good example of a large empire that, in one form or another, functioned for quite a long time over a very large area. And over all that time, there was all sorts of exciting drama - civil wars and assassinations and revolts and bits breaking off and being forced back in ... But I didn't want my future - however fanciful it was - to be entirely European. The Radchaai aren't meant to be Romans in Space.

  Ann Leckie

  War, Drama, Space

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• In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the civil rights movement has been delusion.

  Douglas A. Blackmon

  War, Dark, Rights

  Douglas A. Blackmon (2009). “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II”, p.394, Anchor

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• I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Horse, Men

  Reply to Delegation from National Union League, 9 June 1864.

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• Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

  Stonewall Jackson

  God, Duty, Consequence

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• I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.

  Christopher Dodd

  War, Thinking, Virginia

  "Dodd praise for Byrd hit by GOP". www.washingtontimes.com. April 8, 2004.

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• International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs, in the VIP section in the front, looking for the Story: the Most Macheteing Deathest, Most Treasury Corruptest, Most Entrail-Eating Civil Warest, Most Crocodile-Grinning Dictatorest, MOst Heart-Wrenching and Genociding Pulitzerest, Most Black Big-Eyed Oxfam Child Starvingest, Most Wild African Savages Having AIDS-Ridden Sexest with Genetically Mutilatedest Girls...The Most Authentic Real Black Africanest story they can find.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  Girl, Children, Real

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• Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it would have no doubt become an established institution.

  W. Cleon Skousen

  Money, War, Historical

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• Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot.

  Susan Jacoby

  Religious, Atheist, War

  Susan Jacoby (2005). “Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism”, p.70, Macmillan

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• From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

  Charles Sumner

  Country, Rights, Political

  Charles Sumner (1876). “The Works of Charles Sumner”

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• Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Charity, Speech

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to vivid life four extraordinary and audacious women, and runs glorious roughshod over all our traditional notions of the role of women in the Civil War.

  Megan Abbott

  Running, Liars, War

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• Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.

  Mick Jagger

  War, Groups, Opinion

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• Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  War, Men, Brave

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• It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.

  Edmund Ruffin

  War, Class, Ordinary

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• The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

  William H. Seward

  Country, War, Two

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