I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Confederate flag represents the same thing to blacks as the Nazi flag represents to Jews,. — Ken Page Copy Share Image
I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Note to secessionist Texans: now is the time to wave the Confederate Flag. — Melissa Harris-Lacewell Copy Share Image
Our property, we've taken the position that we're phasing out the Confederate flag. — Brian France Copy Share Image
NASCAR - everybody thinks redneck, Confederate flags, racists. And I hate it. I hate it because I know NASCAR is so much… — Bubba Wallace Copy Share Image
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The only reason we used the Confederate flag was just because we were from the South, and we were proud of that. — Gary Rossington Copy Share Image
It's time for the [Confederate] Flag to come down, because it just doesn't represent who we are as a people, as Americans… — Jack Hunter Copy Share Image
I can think of no better way to honor our fallen Civil War Union soldiers than by reminding Confederate flag-wavers that our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My position on how to address the Confederate flag is clear. In Florida, we acted, moving the flag from the state grounds… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The rainbow flag is beautiful because it's about love. The Confederate flag is ugly because it's about hate. It's pretty simple from… — Gilbert Baker Copy Share Image
I have white friends who have the Confederate flag on their license plates, and I have no issue with that if they… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
“I feel guilty looking at those "People of Walmart" photos you see on the Internet. It's not cool to make fun of… — Celia Rivenbark Copy Share Image
I've seen too many comments, too many stories from a fan, or first-time fans that have come to a race in years… — Bubba Wallace Copy Share Image
When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the bedsheet is a Confederate flag. I wonder how the Negro players feel about them. The worst part is that these… — Jim Bouton Copy Share Image
Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
It's hard when the worst people in the country are cheering, the people with the confederate flag, the people that do anti-Semitism… — Michael Gerson Copy Share Image
I heard someone say that concern over the [Confederate] Flag is sensitivity to micro-aggressions, to which my response is to say that… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
“The CSS Alabama’s captain, Rafael Semmes, was a devout Catholic who saw the Civil War as a religious struggle. He associated Northern… — Andrew Lees Copy Share Image
I intend to talk about race during this election in the South because the Republicans have been talking about it since 1968… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
“Back then, there weren’t channels dedicated to subcategories of the population. There was no Disney channel, no Food Network, no ESPN, no… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Yes, my friends, your hunger for history is still pretty segregated. Your knowledge of America often ends at the color line. You… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“When Ben unfurls the T-shirts, there are two small problems. First, it turns out that a large T-shirt in a Georgia gas… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The tide of our national meanness rises incrementally, one brutalizing experience at a time, inside one person at a time in a… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
“The profilers’ plan to coax me out of the woods resembled a comedy skit. During their search of my Cane Creek trailer,… — Eric Rudolph Copy Share Image
“Portland, Maine was the site of one of the northernmost skirmishes of the Civil War! Called the Battle of Portland Harbor, it… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Salty & Saucy Maine Copy Share Image
I do not like the Confederate flag. It excludes me, profoundly. And if many good people fought honorably to defend it, I… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
The Confederate flag is one of those things that should only be seen on t-shirts, belt buckles and bumper stickers to help… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
Trump bumper sticker is the new Confederate flag. Absolutely. All Donald Trump is doing is making America hate again. — Charlamagne tha God Copy Share Image
I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
I think that it's appropriate to have the Confederate flag perhaps in a museum, but it is not a unifying symbol. — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
The Confederate flag is a divisive presence - it's the opposite of everything my artistry means and represents. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image