The Confederate flag represents the same thing to blacks…

For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no difference when…

— Ken Page

Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil War transforming…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The people that don't want change, the ones that don't see how removing Confederate flag creates so much more opportunities for our sport to…

— Bubba Wallace

Now, that doesn't mean that individuals can't have Confederate flags on their property. They have the right to do that. But again, it represents…

— Martin Luther King III

I don't fly the Confederate flag on my property, but I'm not going to try to belittle or embarrass anybody who wants to do…

— Corey Stewart

The only reason we used the Confederate flag was just because we were from the South, and we were proud of that.

— Gary Rossington

Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes.

— Ezola B. Foster

I heard someone say that concern over the [Confederate] Flag is sensitivity to micro-aggressions, to which my response is to say that kidnapping and…

— Russell D. Moore

I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.

— Jesmyn Ward

It's hard when the worst people in the country are cheering, the people with the confederate flag, the people that do anti-Semitism on Twitter,…

— Michael Gerson

In South Carolina, the Confederate flag flies high on countless flagpoles. Those who defend this practice by saying it is part of Southern culture…

— Jack Schlossberg

It's time for the [Confederate] Flag to come down, because it just doesn't represent who we are as a people, as Americans anymore.

— Jack Hunter

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery .…

— Alexander H. Stephens

What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of the state capitol. Because I grew up…

— John Edwards