America Quote by Frank E. Vandiver

... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

“was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro.…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“virtue of the American frontier and its allegedly salubrious”

— Eithne Luibhéid

[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

“The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“To me the way they were used, particularly the way their idealism and loyalty were exploited by leaders who themselves had lost faith in…

— Mark Bowden

“. . . the Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness combined to heal the wounds of four years of fratricidal strife. . .”

— Robert Penn Warren

In the mid 19th century, it had taken a generation of political rhetoric to induce southern soldiers to fight for the interests of a…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“In the South, we knew our adversary would stop at nothing to silence our activism. We knew we could never match his readiness to…

— John Lewis

“[The South's] obsession was to maintain a government, an economy, an arrangement of the sexes, a relationship of the races, and a social system…

— John Hope Franklin

Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm saying very…

— Clark Gable

The cause of the South was the cause of constitutional government, the cause of government regulated by law, and the cause of honesty and…

— Benjamin F. Grady