What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame … - Robert E. Lee

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This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human beings. . . We shall do it without violence because it is our destiny. To the growers and to all who oppose us, we say the words of Benito Juarez: `Respect for another's right is the meaning of peace. '

Robert E. Lee

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

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So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.

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Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

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There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

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A land without memories is a people without liberty.

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