CIVIL in Classic Quotes

1  During the Civil War one of my young masters was killed, and two were severely wounded.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

2  In this cabin I lived with my mother and a brother and sister till after the Civil War, when we were all declared free.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

3  Although he fought the Southern white man in the Civil War, I never heard him utter a bitter word against him afterward.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

4  No enterprise seeking the material, civil, or moral welfare of this section can disregard this element of our population and reach the highest success.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV.

5  Though I was a mere child during the preparation for the Civil War and during the war itself, I now recall the many late-at-night whispered discussions that I heard my mother and the other slaves on the plantation indulge in.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

6  I said that in granting the appropriation Congress could do something that would prove to be of real and lasting value to both races, and that it was the first great opportunity of the kind that had been presented since the close of the Civil War.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.