Famous quotes containing the words russian, civil, war and/or aftermath:
“To be born in a new country one has to die in the motherland.”
—Irina Mogilevskaya, Russian student. “Immigrating to the U.S.,” student paper in an English as a Second Language class, Hunter College, 1995.
“The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in courts. It begins in woman’s soul.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”
—Tony Benn (b. 1925)
“The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)