But There Was No Peace Quotes

“Wars always leave a residue of violent men...who cannot return to peaceful pursuits.”
― George C. Rable, But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction

“As Hannah Arendt has pointed out, rage is not a usual response to incurable diseases or seemingly unchangeable social conditions. Rage occurs when people suspect that a situation could be changed and their sense of justice is offended.”
― George C. Rable, But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction

“More terrifying than the shrouded future was the present powerlessness of the South. ...In studying a variety of civil disturbances around the world, Ted Robert Gurr concluded that 'frustration-induced anger' is largely responsible for causing internal strife.”
― George C. Rable, But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction

“In the context of world history, the American Civil War is a singular event. In four years more than six hundred thousand men died, the Union was preserved, and slavery was destroyed, but no formal peace settlement was ever made. The country miraculously avoided the bloody reprisals that commonly follow civil wars. The victors were amazing lenient and executed but one rebel... Yet more ironic, the losers in the conflict--the white southerners--committed numerous acts of violence against the winners.... By the time the federal government retreated from its reconstruction of the South, former Confederates had achieve through political terrorism what they had been unable to win with their armies...”
― George C. Rable, But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction