Sarah J. Jackson: Frederick Douglass has thoughts about the effort to recuperate Robert E. Lee "Whatever else I may forget, I shall never forget the difference between those who fought for liberty and those who fought for slavery; between those who fought to save the Republic and those who fought to destroy it.”

Frederick Douglass has thoughts about the effort to recuperate Robert E. Lee "Whatever else I may forget, I shall never forget the difference between those who fought for liberty and those who fought for slavery; between those who fought to save the Republic and those who fought to destroy it.”

What Frederick Douglass Thought About Robert E. Leewww.newsweek.com

And Du Bois dropped some bars: “It is the punishment of the South that its Lees and Davises will always be tall, handsome and well-born. That their courage will be physical and not moral. That their leadership will be weak compliance and never costly and unswerving revolt for justice and right.”

No Excuses for a Racist Murderer: W.E.B. DuBois on the Legacy of Robert E. Leeinthesetimes.com Historian and civil rights organizer, W.E.B. DuBois, wrote this short essay in 1928.

Wonderful line.

One of my favorites. Pure poetics.

Also, wasn't Lee kind of a crap general, too?

Damn.

Robert E. Lee's "cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse." –Ulysses S. Grant, Chapter 67 of his Personal Memoirs

Spare no pity for, and give no honors to, the malefactors of the Fourth Servile War

I hear Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more.

lol. Thank you for making this joke I loled at my present tense typo for this exact reason

Too many totally did...

The United States of Amnesia needs this man quoted, often. Thanks.

well, when you put it in Black and white terms like that…

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