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  • I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

  • I think, to be honest, sort of emanated from the initial work of somebody else instead of SCLC. If you take Albany; I don't know whether you recall how Albany got started. There were two little guys who went up there first. One was Cordell Hull who was then in his teens - not Cordell Hull - Cordell Reagan, who came out of the Nashville movement, and Charles Sherrod, who came out of the Richmond, Virginia, movement.

    Source: www.crmvet.org
  • The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated.

    Abraham Lincoln (1944). “Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.331, Рипол Классик
  • I could not move them. They would not even agree to a modification, of the ruling (banning the Rand vaccine), which would at least allow the 100 (cancer) patients at Richmond Heights (Ohio) to complete their injections. The Justice Department was prepared to go along, but the FDA commissioner, Dr. James Goddard, was adamant, even belligerent. It's wrong of the government to snatch away this hope when there is no evidence against its use offered in court. It's damnably wrong.

    Cancer   Moving   Dark  
  • It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.

    War   Atlanta   Virginia  
  • I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.

    Children   War   Virginia  
    "Billy Campbell Talks KILLING LINCOLN, Taking on the Iconic Figure, Putting on the Hat and Reenacting the Assassination, Plus Season 3 of AMC’s THE KILLING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.
  • I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.

    Boys   White   Funky  
  • I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.

  • Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

    Names   People   Tree  
    STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”
  • One wise decision I made was buying a plot of land with planning permission in Richmond, and building my own five-bedroom home on it. I sold three years after I completed the building and more than doubled my money. I like Richmond and always have my eyes open for other properties in the area.

    Wise   Home   Eye  
    Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
  • After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad.

    Sports   Hurt   Airports  
  • In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

    Two   Cost   Literature  
    Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.59, BoD – Books on Demand
  • My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

    Morning   Clever   Son  
    Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.63, BoD – Books on Demand
  • Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

    Writing   Mean   Phoenix  
    John Shelton Reed (1993). “My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture”, p.5, University of Missouri Press
  • Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.

  • In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.

    Jesus   Prayer   Husband  
    Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.271, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.

    Sexy   Husband   Smart  
    E! Online Interview, October 04, 2002.
  • Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.

    John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.40, Anza Publishing
  • Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

  • Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red rooftops and trees of cauliflower and columbine, shaped like rockets and explosions, all those people below us, with humbler views; we see the Bay Bridge, clunkety, the Richmond Bridge, straight, low, the Golden Gate, red toothpicks and string, the blue between, the blue above, the gleaming white Land of the Lost/Superman's North Pole Getaway magic crystals that are San Francisco.

    Blue   Views   Oakland  
  • We need to capitalize on the tracks we're really, really good at. At Richmond and Martinsville, our performance and results have not been very good, even though I consider them to be among my two best racetracks.

    Two   Track   Needs  
  • Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

    War   Writing   Heart  
    Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.215, Penguin
  • I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the confederacy.

    Virginia   Born   Raised  
    "What I’d Say to POTUS" by Corey Reynolds, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2011.
  • I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

    Letter to Robert E. Lee, November 4, 1866.
  • In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

    Virginia   Ideas   Might  
  • Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

    Issues   Years   Adequate  
  • I get a little Verlaine for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Negres of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine after practically going to sleep with quandariness

    Sleep   Thinking   Play  
    Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.325, Univ of California Press
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