Ulysses S. Grant on slavery

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.

I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.

This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime.

Mike Tysonborn 1966

• America

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.

Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968

• Race

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine of Hippo354–430

• Freedom
• Virtue