Activism Quote by John Darnielle

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

— Wadada Leo Smith

You've got the whole civil rights movements emanating from the south, you've got the music that came out of the south that is the…

— Debra Winger

People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true.…

— Jesmyn Ward

Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.

— Ari Shapiro

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

— Danny K. Davis

It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

— Nat King Cole

The South is a place for music, dance, and culture.

— Jackie Shroff

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people…

— Genevieve Gorder

We just dig Southern rock 'n' roll. It hasn't been represented well at all. So, we want to see the people in the South…

— Ronnie Van Zant

The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was…

— Jacqueline Woodson

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares

— Josh Lucas

It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the…

— Octavia Spencer