South carolina Quote by Colson Whitehead

... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was]…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

“These southern workers were more interested in protecting their prejudices than their interests.”

— Fred Erwin Beal

Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“If there was one thing that South Carolina feared more than bad Negro government,” wrote Du Bois, “it was good Negro government.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“You got the sense from being around them that no war in the history of South Carolina had ever ended, that they were still…

— Omar El Akkad

“Blacks and whites in the South have had to learn to live together in a new way. Up north, they're getting acquainted for the…

— Herman E. Talmadge

South Carolina is going to always mean the world to me. They have built me up.

— A'ja Wilson

I look forward with hope to increasing the already good feeling between the South andthe other sections of the country. My chief purpose is…

— William Howard Taft

The history of Black Americans in South Carolina is riddled with trials and tribulations.

— Jaime Harrison

The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense…

— Kwame Dawes

“I'll be certain to feel superior as they hurl insults and rocks in my direction." "I thought southern people were supposed to be warm…

— Andrea Laurence

The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as…

— Timothy Thomas Fortune