Kate Stone Quotes
God will aid us in our righteous cause. We will either fight or die.
Kate Stone, 1841-1907, Southern Civil War Plantation Owner, Entry in her journal in the midst of the civil war, Quoted on PBS The American Experience: Reconstruction, January 2, 2006
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This would be like an American President firing the congressional chaplains. However this is only one small, but telling, example of Atatuk’s secularization of the nation which had a great deal to do with Turkey becoming a modern great power—by far the strongest and most developed of the Islamic world.
They became Company C of the 125th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, and were known as the Huntington Bible Company. See {618057}.
The phrase was picked up by the press, and then became the title to a patriotic song of World War II.
Epic Historical Poet. Noteworthy is the Poem in that it shows the king fighting with his Christian and Pagan supporters. His conversions were not forced and he managed to govern and fight without religion being the societal cleavage—rather it was nationality and culture and in this sense he was somewhat ahead of his time.
One Islamic belief that has stood since the inception of the religion is that if a true believer who is defending the faith in a jihad is killed, he will immediate be transported to Paradise where he will receive the best of the other world. If a Muslim dies under normal circumstances, he is judged and may or may not attain Paradise depending on his past life. However, if he dies in jihad, all past sins are immediately erased and he is guaranteed Paradise. This quotation is exactly what is told to Muslim fighters and suicide bombers today (see {635766}, {588728} and {590762}) and it is just as effective as ever in persuading men to fight and sacrifice themselves. The Roman Catholic Pope issued a similar edict in the Crusades and fights of both religions were willing and almost anxious to die in battle. In modern times Christian leaders do not make such appeals and if they did, few would believe them.
Sarah Katherine Holmes Stone, better known as Kate Stone, was an American diarist and community leader. She was the daughter of a wealthy cotton farmer and slaveholder in the Southern United States. She is remembered in American history and literature for her diary, Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1865, edited by John Q. Anderson, which she kept during the time of the American Civil War, printed in 1955, which she kept continuously from May 1861 to November 1865; shorter supplements date from 1867 and 1868. In addition to the diaries of two other ladies of the upper southern society, Mary Boykin Chesnut and Sarah Morgan, Stone's journal since its first publication has often been used by historians to illustrate the Southern world.
