Emancipation Proclamation Quotes

More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States.

The American Civil War was the wrangling of two armed mobs.

In 1961, an official U.S. commission oversaw thousands of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Civil War. All 50 states joined in, but not surprisingly, the biggest events took place in the 11 southern states that made up the defeated Confederacy.

Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.

The present Administration had no alternative but to accept the war initiated by South Carolina or the Southern Confederacy. The North will sustain the Administration almost to a man, and it ought to sustain it at all hazards.

President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.

President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.

Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence.

In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

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

God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued 90 years ago. I believe in gradualism. But 90 years is gradual enough.

The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War.

Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice - for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico!

Thus ended the great American Civil War, which upon the whole must be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.

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

Jesus loves a free black man.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

Starting in the early 1800s, Southerners in the United States began to defend slavery as their 'peculiar institution,' and northerners didn't mind, since the phrase suggested that chattel bondage was quarantined from the rest of the nation: that it was, or soon would be, a relic of its past and would not define its future.

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

I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation; nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.

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.