“This fight is against slavery; if we lose it, you will be made free.”
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877) Confederate Army general
As quoted in Report of the Joint Select Committee.
“We forget that it was the religion of abolitionists that led them not to pray against slavery but to stand against slavery.”
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Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
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1880s, Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)
Context: The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that 'A state half slave and half free cannot exist.' All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.
Kayleigh McEnany (1988) American political commentator and writer
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