Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Rebecca Latimer Felton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Rebecca Latimer Felton.
Last updated on November 17, 2024.
Rebecca Latimer Felton

Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton was an American writer, lecturer, feminist, suffragist, reformer, slave owner, and politician who was the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, although she served for only one day.

It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war--when any population in any sort of a nation gets violently angry, civilization falls down and religion forsakes its hold on the consciences of human kind in such times of public madness.
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war. — © Rebecca Latimer Felton
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.
It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.
When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded them as another man's slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.
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