We have, for generations, been trying to be more inclusive…

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

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

When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have…

— Bryan Stevenson

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

“An estimated 400 women disguised themselves as men to fight in the Civil War. Many were like Amy Clarke, who enlisted so she could…

— Gail Collins

“A rump group of rebel soldiers formed a colony west of Vera Cruz called Carlota, which soon burgeoned into a community of five thousand…

— Ron Chernow

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia…

— William Safire

We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains,…

— Albert Pike

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

...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free…

— Sheldon Vanauken

In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence…

— Bryan Stevenson

Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm saying very…

— Clark Gable

“As he reached the slight elevation he beheld the Confederate army sweeping down upon him. Their skirmish line fired at him, killing his orderly.…

— Warren Olney

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 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