Note to secessionist Texans: now is the time to wave the…

I tried to explain that there was a great difference between me and Mujib [Rahiman]: he was a secessionist and I wasn't.

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to…

— Frank Chodorov

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

— Ezola B. Foster

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

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

“When Ben unfurls the T-shirts, there are two small problems. First, it turns out that a large T-shirt in a Georgia gas station is…

— John Green

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

“Yes, my friends, your hunger for history is still pretty segregated. Your knowledge of America often ends at the color line. You end up…

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

“...screaming about your rights as an American while rockin' the confederate flag is like arguing against gay marriage with a dick in your mouth.”

— Trae Crowder

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