I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
The Confederate flag represents the same thing to blacks as the Nazi flag represents to Jews,. — Ken Page Copy Share Image
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor. — Bill Nelson Copy Share Image
Our property, we've taken the position that we're phasing out the Confederate flag. — Brian France Copy Share Image
I'm not against pulling down our statues of Confederate generals and Confederate leaders. — Madison Cawthorn 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 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
Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that any part of the Confederate army was… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag,… — Alan Keyes 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
“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
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
Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis… — Jeffrey Rosen 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
“An estimated 400 women disguised themselves as men to fight in the Civil War. Many were like Amy Clarke, who enlisted so… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
The anti-slavery party contends that slavery is wrong in itself, and the Government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South… — Laurence M. Keitt Copy Share Image
We have, for generations, been trying to be more inclusive of the word Southern. And a symbol like the confederate flag indicates… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
“History textbooks still present Union and Confederate sympathizers as equally idealistic. The North fought to hold the Union together, while the South… — James W. Loewen 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
“They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The American people were, in the beginning, Revolutionaries and Tories. The American people ever since have been Revolutionaries and Tories. They have… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not - will not be forgotten nor neglected. But those who fought against the… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Having preserved the Union and saved white workers from competing with slave labor, the North could magnanimously acquiesce to such Confederate meretriciousness… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“In the morning we shed our blue sheep’s clothing. Our border shirts came out of satchels and onto our backs. We preferred… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
They do not know what they say. If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Criticism of Davis was neither new nor unusual, for his Confederacy was by no means a monolithic state. Secession had been imposed… — Burke Davis Copy Share Image
“The fear had precedent. Toward the end of the Civil War, having witnessed the effectiveness of the Union's 'colored troops,' a flailing… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Some of you from outside the South may be wondering why we’re emphasizing this irrefutable historical fact that everyone should know so… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
“Michael King was a young preacher with horn-rimmed glasses and a close-cropped beard and mustache. "The Bible says, if eating meat offends… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both. — David Strathairn Copy Share Image
I'm not going to waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues. That's wasted energy. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image