Confederate Quotes

59 Confederate quotes by 48 unique authors

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent. — John Shelton Reed
The anti-slavery party contends that slavery is wrong in itself, and the Government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South contend that slavery… — Laurence M. Keitt
The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They… — Winston Churchill
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 talking… — Ta-Nehisi Coates
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to… — Robert Dale Owen
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything… — Allen Tate
I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which (Abraham) Lincoln… — Howard Dean
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same,… — John Shelton Reed
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the… — John Shelton Reed
I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the… — Anson Mount
For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no difference when we… — Ken Page
The Confederate flag represents the same thing to blacks as the Nazi flag represents to Jews,. — Ken Page
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly… — Alan Keyes
What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but… — Lysander Spooner
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power. — Matt Taibbi
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as… — Allen Tate
Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a… — Ally Carter
Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers. — Harper Lee
However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic “body crystals,” flag… — Sarah Vowell
Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army." "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility. "I meant those… — Margaret Mitchell
I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must tell you now,… — Michael Shaara
For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son… — Harper Lee
Former police chief of Houston once said of me: “Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign… — Frank Abagnale
I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over… — John Green
My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first… — Natasha Trethewey

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