There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is awar to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.

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God is on the side with the best artillery

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Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today. ― Robert Greene

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There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

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If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ― John F. Kennedy

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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

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The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation...If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

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If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.

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