The Confederate flag represents the same thing to blacks as the Nazi flag represents to Jews,.
I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress.
[Confederate flag] it's a symbol of racial hatred.
You might be a redneck if you are still holding on to Confederate money because you think the South will rise again.
The Confederate flag is one of those things that should only be seen on t-shirts, belt buckles and bumper stickers to help the rest of us identify the worst people in the world.
What a general could do, Thomas did; no more dependable soldier for a moment of crisis existed on the North American continent, or ever did exist. . . Thomas comes down in history as the Rock of Chickamauga, the great defensive fighter, the man who could never be driven away but who was not much on the offensive. That may be a correct appraisal, Yet it may also be worth making note that just twice in all the war was a major Confederate army driven away from a prepared position in complete rout - at Chattanooga and at Nashville. Each time the blow that routed it was launched by Thomas.
It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.
The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say. . . 'How can you subdue such a nation as this!'
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
The anti-slavery party contends that slavery is wrong in itself, and the Government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South contend that slavery is right, and that this is a confederate Republic of sovereign States.
Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes.
You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.
I heard someone say that concern over the [Confederate] Flag is sensitivity to micro-aggressions, to which my response is to say that kidnapping and enslaving people, breaking up families, terrorizing families, if that's not a macro-aggression, I don't know what is.
For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.
Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.
I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to tour the fort and wander through it. And all of that time, I never knew anything about the presence of black soldiers on the island. And so, for me, this was a way of trying to tell another history, a lost or a forgotten or a little-known history about these black soldiers who played an important part in American history. ” Trethewey said. Coincidentally, she was born “exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.
Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.
I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States.
Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.
