Ambrose Burnside

If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.

American Politician

Killer Mike

I have white friends who have the Confederate flag on their license plates, and I have no issue with that if they see that as a matter of heritage. But I do not think it should ever fly over a state, city, county building, or school, for the simple reason that it represents secession from the Union.

American Musician

Vitalik Buterin

I generally support just about every secession attempt that comes along. If, in the future, there is that kind of a dispute in Ethereum, I'd definitely be quite happy to see Ethereum A go in one direction and Ethereum B go the other.

Russian Businessman

Stephen Kinzer

Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that no leading tribal or political figure there has called for secession.

American Author

John Sergeant Wise

In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

Salman Rushdie

What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.

Indian Novelist

L. Neil Smith

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

American Writer

Yemi Osinbajo

The most successful of the nations of the world are those who do not fall into the lure of secession but who, through thick and thin, forge unity in diversity.

Nigerian Politician

Gail Collins

The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

American Journalist

Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

American Celebrity

Secession is often linked to serious political disagreements and can lead to conflict.

Political Context

Secession is a historic term, frequently tied to major events like the American Civil War.

Historic Events

The term often implies a breakdown in relations and is seldom viewed positively.

Negative Connotation

Secession from a group is formal, involving procedures like voting or agreements.

Formal Process

Use 'secession' when talking about leaving organizations or associations.

Organizational Context

Secession isn't limited to states and countries; groups and clubs can secede too.

Not Just Political

In religion, secession often leads to forming new denominations or churches.

Religious Division

Secession can happen when beliefs clash irreconcilably within a religious group.

Beliefs Clash

Unlike 'schism', 'secession' doesn't always imply a split into two opposing groups.

Not Schism

 mainly because of the people tumbling out of it. And my reporting around the country tells me the problem is grimmer than simple inequality. What I observe is a pair of secessions from the unifying center of American life. An affluent secession of up, up and away, into elite enclaves of the educated and into a global matrix

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 a prominent abolitionist and formerly enslaved person, cautioned, “the spirit of secession is stronger today than ever.” From the words of Confederate leaders, the reason for the war could not have been clearer— it was slavery. So how did this revisionist history come about?

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 since the Armistice and the secession of the war there's almost no visual record independent visual record at all of what life is like for ordinary North Koreans