Civil Quote by Alice Walker

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

— Wadada Leo Smith

I travel all the time, but when I come back to the South, I see such progress. In a real sense, a great deal…

— John Lewis

“The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live, and have lived here, are so ugly…

— James Baldwin

I love everything about the South; I even love hate.

— Brother Dave Gardner

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

— John Edgar Wideman

While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love…

— Jesmyn Ward

You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age that I…

— Terri Sewell

“The civil rights generation is exiting the American stage—not in a haze of nostalgia but in a cloud of gloom, troubled by the persistence…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The civil rights movement is understanding your freedom under the Constitution of these United States and if anyone tries to take those freedoms from…

— Ken Hutcherson

I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to…

— Holly Hunter

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But…

— Robert E. Lee

[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of…

— Richard M. Weaver