Southerners Quotes

41 quotes by 32 authors

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
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
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
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
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
The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished..... — Carson McCullers
Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing,… — John Shelton Reed
I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they… — Bernard Goldberg
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. — Reynolds Price
Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for. — Reynolds Price
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
If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches… — John Shelton Reed
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to… — John Shelton Reed
Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of… — Linda Chavez

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