| Quotes Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded. ---Karl Marx Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; Secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as of many many other evils…The quarrel between the North and the South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel. ---Charles Dickens, December 1861 A union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me. ---Robert E. Lee, January, 1861 …the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy…our youth will be trained by Northern schoolteachers…learn from Northern school books their version of the war…to regard our gallant dead as traitors…---Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne CSA, January, 1864 I came here as a friend…let us stand together. Although we differ in color, we should not differ in sentiment.---Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest CSA, July 4, 1875 …there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army…as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets… There were such soldiers at Manassas and they are probably there still.---Frederick Douglass, Douglass Monthly, IV, September 1861 The protective tariff had almost driven the country to war in 1833; it is not surprising that it brought war in 1861.--- Lyon Tyler, Virginia historian The Confederate symbol represents bigotry and hatred not only in America, but also around the world.---Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO, NAACP, April 2001 (a resolution passed July 5th, 2001 by the NAACP at their annual convention calls for): …the immediate removal of the Confederate battle flag and or Confederate emblems from any and all public sites in this country except at historical museums. There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.---Col. Robert E. Lee, USA, Dec. 27, 1856 If I thought this war was to abolish slavery, I would resign my commission and offer my sword to the other side. --- General U. S. Grant, 1862 ' ... Within this decade we will have succeeded in removing every monument of every description dedicated to the Confederacy that adorns public property in the state of Texas.Our brothers and sisters all across the South will have succeeded in the same manner within their respective states..." --- NAACP Conference, Houston, Texas |
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| CSA General Robert E. Lee |
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