Rebecca Latimer Felton Quotes

• It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war--when any population in any sort of a nation gets violently angry, civilization falls down and religion forsakes its hold on the consciences of human kind in such times of public madness.

  Rebecca Latimer Felton

  War, Anger, Fall

  Rebecca Latimer Felton (1919). “Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions”

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• The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.

  Rebecca Latimer Felton

  War, Hippie, People

  Rebecca Latimer Felton (1919). “Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions”

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• Cuando los hombres blancos estuvieron dispuestos a poner a sus propios vástagos en la cocina y en el campo de maíz y permitieron que fueran vendidos como esclavos y degradados como esclavos de otro hombre, la retribución de la ira se cernió sobre este país y el Sur pagó la penitencia en cuatro años de sangrienta guerra.

  Rebecca Latimer Felton

  País, Guerra, Hombres

  Rebecca Latimer Felton (1919). “Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions”

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• It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.

  Rebecca Latimer Felton

  War, Rose, Slavery

  Rebecca Latimer Felton (1919). “Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions”

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