Southerner Quotes

64 quotes by 48 authors

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. — Stephen Ambrose
What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading… — Septima Poinsette Clark
Southerners can never resist a losing cause. — Margaret Mitchell
Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in… — Alexander Koblencs
Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north during World War… — Ann Coulter
I know climate change is a hoax â€“ of course â€“ but places that have never seen this type of winter weather got hit by… — Bill Maher
I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a… — Esa-Pekka Salonen
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning… — Leon Trotsky
Because I was born in the South, Iâ€™m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I… — Clyde Edgerton
Southerners smile more than other Americans. — John Shelton Reed
Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you. — John Shelton Reed
Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We donâ€™t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture it would be… — Allison Glock
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. — Linda Chavez
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. — Jefferson Davis
A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12. — Charles Kuralt
Professional Southerners sicken me. — Barry Hannah
Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us. — Paula Deen
One of the things I most wanted to do in New York was to go to a performance by Martha Graham. For me, she's Miss… — Eugene Walter
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. — Constance Baker Motley
It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is some unreconstructed Southerner,… — John Crowe Ransom

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