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“America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg in 1863, Abraham Lincoln said perhaps more than he knew. The war was about a new birth of freedom.”

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Author:Bruce Catton

“I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.”

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Author:Benjamin Butler

“In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the civil rights movement has been delusion.”

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Book:Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Source: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

“To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today.”

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Author:Thurgood Marshall

“The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.”

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Author:Stonewall Jackson