Confederate Quotes

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The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

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.

I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States.

A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.

The only argument you can make against having Confederate flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag...

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!'

Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes.

More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika.

There is a sort of Neo-Confederate thread that runs through these sort of pro-gun movements and the NRA movement.

You might be a redneck if you are still holding on to Confederate money because you think the South will rise again.

Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.

My position on how to address the Confederate flag is clear. In Florida, we acted, moving the flag from the state grounds to a museum, where it belonged.

Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.

[Confederate flag] it's a symbol of racial hatred.

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.

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 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.

It's time for the [Confederate] Flag to come down, because it just doesn't represent who we are as a people, as Americans anymore.

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.

I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which Abraham Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago.

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back to the pro-slavery side of the war.

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece ofspecious humbug designed to conceal it's desire for economic control ofthe Southern states.

Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members

Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the Reformed Faith in all its fullness.

Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.

I’d prefer ‘Bonnie Blue Flag’, if you take requests…” Tom had turned and rested his elbows on the bar. His hand was inches from the Colt. These were the men he was looking for.