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
My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle,… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, incongruously in this company, one of Arthur… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the… — J. E. B. Stuart Copy Share Image
I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a… — John Green 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
I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and… — Calvin Johnson 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
On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take… — Vivien Leigh 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
“All people—white and colored, slave and free, Union and Confederate—shared a common humanity belied by their outward differences. In a time of… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals.… — Bryan Stevenson 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
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
I sorrowfully acknowledge that seven years ago… I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends and colleagues who victimized me with the… — Jim Bakker Copy Share Image
I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope,… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“As he reached the slight elevation he beheld the Confederate army sweeping down upon him. Their skirmish line fired at him, killing… — Warren Olney Copy Share Image
“One of the great Confederate combat leaders, General John B. Gordon, had sat at his horse and spoken farewell to his men.… — Carl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“He immediately had Rawlins summon stretcher bearers, but was dismayed when they removed the Union officer and overlooked the Confederate private. “Take… — Ron Chernow 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
I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must… — Michael Shaara 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
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
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
“By 1864 Wall Streeters had spies in the Confederate high command and could learn southern battle plans before colonels in the Army… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
In South Carolina, the Confederate flag flies high on countless flagpoles. Those who defend this practice by saying it is part of… — Jack Schlossberg Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is spoken - not exclusively, but there's a mix of languages in it. That's what I liked about 'For… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live… — Chesty Puller Copy Share Image
Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes. — Ezola B. Foster Copy Share Image
Now, that doesn't mean that individuals can't have Confederate flags on their property. They have the right to do that. But again,… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
“Wheelock Commandery 5, Texas, ceased to exist when its 55 members joined the Confederate Army in 1861 and all were subsequently killed.” — Steven L. Harrison Copy Share Image
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
I salute South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Lindsey Graham for their calls to remove the Confederate battle flag from the… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
I am glad to see the Confederate battle flag gone from a place of honor at the South Carolina state capitol. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can't beat George Bush unless… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image