Drivers Quote by Henry David Thoreau

I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one, I…

— John C. Calhoun

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…

— 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…

— Leon Trotsky

We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There…

— Abraham Lincoln

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

— Lewis Grizzard

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

— Susan B. Anthony

When you live in a lot of places, you can't help but have them become part of you. Technically, I am a Southerner, but…

— Neko Case

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

— Gerrit Smith

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which…

— Fanny Kemble

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

— Reynolds Price

Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.

— Karin Slaughter

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do…

— Gerrit Smith