Darryl Pinckney Quotes

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

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish.

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

Abraham Lincoln is the most powerful slave catcher in America.

In the mid 19th century, it had taken a generation of political rhetoric to induce southern soldiers to fight for the interests of a small ruling class in the name of democracy.

I was an English major in college who concentrated in African-American literature and culture. So I read quite a few slave narratives and stories of escape, and I grew up in Ohio, which was a common stop on the Underground Railroad.

It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.

None of the black abolitionist newspapers, the first of which appeared in 1827, was in existence after the Civil War.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.

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

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.

The Army runs Fort A.P. Hill, named for a Confederate general whose men killed African American soldiers after they surrendered.

The South was my country but the South went to war on account of slavery.

The doctrine of states’ rights was itself a sound and true doctrine; as a starting point of American history and constitutional law there is no other which will bear a moment’s examination ... its prostitution to the base uses of the slave power was one of those unfortunate enlargements which often perturb and mislead history

The Emancipation Proclamation was fraught with consequences, immediate and remote, such as human foresight could not penetrate…..

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