“The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.Susan B. Anthony
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.George Bernard Shaw
“Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, “I told you so.” George Noel Gordon (Lord Byron)