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The
Lee
myth.
Lee
being above slavery,
Lee
being in fact anti-slavery, is essential to the neo-Confederate argument that it's not about race, it's not about slavery. They've done a very good job of covering up
Robert
E.
Lee
's actual positions on this.
Brooks D. Simpson
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In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding
Robert
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. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General
Lee
thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.
Fannie Flagg
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Out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the
Robert
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Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.
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... not one rebel defection — not even
Robert
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Lee
's — cost young Adams a personal pang; but Sumner's struck home.
Henry Adams
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I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights. In high school, when the future lawyers were campaigning for class president, the future cartoonists were painstakingly altering illustrations in their history books so that
Robert
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appeared to be performing an illegal act with his horse.
Dave Barry
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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
Gary Becker
Robert E. Lee
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Born:
January 19, 1807
Died:
October 12, 1870
(aged 63)
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