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It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.

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Robert E. Lee

The war. . . was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

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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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