Acceptance Quote by Robert E. Lee

[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

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

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 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

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

— John Edgar Wideman

My work will continue to engage the historic South.

— RaMell Ross

The goal of any worthwhile and effective journal of opinion analysis in navigating what is an increasingly tribal and divisive period in American history…

— Ben Domenech

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually…

— Genevieve Gorder

“[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

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be…

— Bryan Stevenson

In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of the Civil…

— Douglas A. Blackmon