Alan D Granger

“We are opposed to Negro equality. To prevent this we are willing to spare the last man, down to the point where women and children begin to suffer for food and clothing; when these begin to suffer and die, rather than see them equalized with an inferior race we will die with them.”
― Bruce Catton, Coming Fury, Volume 1

“Slavery, said Yancey, was an institution necessary to the prosperity of the South and to that of the North as well; and, furthermore, it was nothing any Northerner need worry about. “It is an institution, too, that doesn’t harm you, for we don’t let our niggers run about to injure anybody; we keep them; they never steal from you; they don’t trouble you with that peculiar stench which is very good in the nose of the Southern man but intolerable in the”
― Bruce Catton, Coming Fury, Volume 1

“Maddox declared that secession had not been “a question of the union” but “simply fought about ‘niggers’!” He reminded listeners that “we fought for the supremacy of the white race in America; for civilization against abolition theories; the cause of truth against abolition prejudice; and the cause of common sense against the foulest errors that will ever astonish posterity.”26”
― Gary W. Gallagher, The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

“is the ceding of technical and scientific leadership to China. It is the innovation that never occurs, and the knowledge that is never created, because you have ceased to lay the groundwork for it. It is what you never learned that might have saved you.”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy