78 quotes found
“She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.”
“If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell”
“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.”
“Are you a communist?""No I am an anti-fascist""For a long time?""Since I have understood fascism.”
“For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to take what is your due, to secure what you won in bloody battle...”
“The fear had precedent. Toward the end of the Civil War, having witnessed the effectiveness of the Union's 'colored troops,' a flailing Confederacy began considering an attempt to recruit blacks in...”
“A civil war is, may we say, the prototype of all war, for in the persons of fellow citizens who happen to be the enemy we meet again, with the old ambivalence of love and hate and with all the old ...”
“Had the Battle of Franklin ever really ended? Carrie walked her cemetery, and around her the wounds closed up and scarred over, but only in that way that an oak struck by lightning heals itself by ...”
“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.”
“You help us, theyll lock you up for the rest of your life.”
“What southern whites further sought, and in a sense demanded, was respect. This the North provided after 1876 in paeans to the courage and dedication of soldiers on both sides. Resentment of northe...”
“In the United States the continued influence of the old elite meant that southern politics fell under the domination of a Democratic Party that gloried the Confederacy, the Lost Cause, the Ku Klux ...”
“War cannot eliminate differing ideas and viewpoints, and partisans of the defeated side do not disappear. Though subjugated, they become a sizable political constituency in the postwar period. A di...”
“I believe love is like war: we only know how it starts, and nobody knows how it will end.”
“An act of a dictatorship is an act of a civil war - Freedom to the people.”
“You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he mig...”
“It wasnt that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous.”
“He was wearing a little bag of Mojo around his neck.”
“Quite often, people inaccurately comment about the villains of the South and the heroes of the North. Such statements cause bitter debates. Thus, it is important to recognize the good and the bad f...”
“While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark period in American history.”
