Change Quote by John Hope Franklin

The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor…

— John Coleman

[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

“The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live, and have lived here, are so ugly…

— James Baldwin

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“I mean No South. You can’t have ‘New’ and ‘South.’ It’s oxymoronic. I’m talking about the No South. The unstoppable force that’s putting in…

— Nell Zink

There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film "Gone With The Wind" that looks back fondly at slavery as…

— William R. Ferris

“The happiness of the South was very formidable. It was an almost invincible happiness. It defied you to call it anything else. Everyone was…

— Walker Percy

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

For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white…

— Benjamin E. Mays

All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as…

— Robert E. Lee

“The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and…

— Ulysses S. Grant