Marion Barry Quotes

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

When Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, he turned the Civil War into a revolution.

If Abraham Lincoln had had his way, there would be no Black people in America—None!

After the Civil war, everybody in retrospect claimed to be an abolitionist. It’s amazing that slavery survived so long when there were so many abolitionists.

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In the end, of course, Republicans ended slavery and permanently outlawed it through the Thirteenth Amendment.

Lincoln was the Twain of our politics.

If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.

As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

I walked out of Spielberg's 'Lincoln' having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American history. It used such a small piece of his presidency to illustrate him as a president through the lens of that event.

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.

Lincoln's paper proclamation must now become iron, lead and fire.

There were slaves in the North which were tolerated for some time, but the South was built upon slavery.

The slave-owning South won the subsequent ideological war…the consensus of history was that the Civil War had little to do with slavery.

I wonder if anyone but me will remember that June Teenth was always celebrated by all the Negroes in Texas …. It was the day that the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect a hundred or so years ago.

Abraham Lincoln is the most powerful slave catcher in America.

Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

In 1860, the Republicans put Lincoln in the White House, and Southerners left the Union. Their absence opened the way for the new party to reshape the national government, from protecting the wealth of propertied men to promoting economic opportunity for everyone.

Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that.

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.

African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.