John Eaton > Quotes

“The question had been complicated by the advocacy of some good men, who saw in the separation of the white and black races in the schools of the Nation a dangerous tendency toward the creation of class distinctions in our American life. It was the expression of a theory of equality right in itself, but which it would have been fatal at that moment to enforce.”
― John Eaton, Grant, Lincoln, and the Freedmen: Reminiscences of the Civil War