#civil war

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The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.


Corrine Brown


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I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.


Ken Burns


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You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.


George H. W. Bush


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You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.


Midge Ure


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I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.


Kevin Costner


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Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.


Peter DeFazio


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There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?


Jon Voight


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I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.


Steve Zahn


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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.


Dick Gregory


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And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.


Michael Haneke


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