Degrees Quote by Ida B. Wells

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and…

— John Shelton Reed

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows…

— Henry David Thoreau

[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 slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have…

— Alistair Cooke

History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their…

— Benjamin Franklin

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Individuals in the South are just like individuals any place else.

— Danny K. Davis

“[O]ne cannot separate violence from the very exist­ ence of the state (as the apparatus of class domination): from the standpoint of the'subordinated and…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Center and periphery" is a model for explaining this situation on our one earth. It makes apparent how the minority in the rich countries…

— Dorothee Soelle

Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely…

— Terry Eagleton