"The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of their people, upon the well-defined constitutional rights of the Southern citizens; the rapid growth and increase, in all the elements of power, of a purely sectional party..."

-- Isham G. Harris

#War Quotes #Party Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Don't be afraid of your own strength.”
“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.”

Source : Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.119, Courier Dover Publications
“If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now.”
“I'm human, just like anybody else.”
“The postwar WWII GI Bill of Rights-and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans-signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.”
“I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.”
“Dear me, how I love a library.”
“Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.”

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