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 …

- Rebecca Latimer Felton

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 …

- 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.

- Rebecca Latimer Felton

It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.

- Rebecca Latimer Felton