Confederate Quotes

• Slavery, Confederate Vice-President Alexander H. Stephens proudly affirmed, was the cornerstone of the Confederacy. Accordingly, slavery's disintegration compelled the Confederate government to take steps to save the institution, and these policies, in turn, sundered white society.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Society
  • Government
  • Slavery

• 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.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Art
  • History
  • Connection

• According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Up
  • Society
  • Desire

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

  

  Ezola B. Foster
  • Hate
  • Training
  • Flag

• However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic “body crystals,” flag stickers you attach to your skin. Personally, I’m small-minded and literal enough that I see the two symbols as contradictory, especially in a time of war. But I fear that the consumer who buys a Confederate flag coffee cup, which she will then put on her American flag place mat, is the sort of sophisticated thinker who is open-minded enough that she is capable of hating blacks and Arabs at the same time.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • War
  • Hate
  • Coffee

• It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Religion
  • Philosophy
  • Confederate

• The Confederate government increasingly molded its policies in the interest of the planter class.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Government
  • Policies
  • Confederate

• 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.

  

  William R. Ferris
  • Thinking
  • Violence
  • Slavery

• Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army." "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility. "I meant those thousands on furlough who FORGOT to rejoin their regiments and those who have been over their wounds for six months but who remain at home, going about their usual business or doing the spring plowing.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Business
  • Humility
  • Wounds

• We have, for generations, been trying to be more inclusive of the word Southern. And a symbol like the confederate flag indicates white only are allowed into that world. And removing the Confederate flag from public view to the pages of history is long overdue.

  

  William R. Ferris
  • Generations
  • Southern
  • Symbols

• I know the GOP is called the stupid party, but the idea that Republicans can have the Confederate flag hung around their neck is ridiculous! It's a Democrat flag! The flags - states that seceded during the Civil War were all Democrat states. That's their flag. The slave states were Democrat states! The racist states until the 1960s were Democrat states!

  

  Sean Hannity
  • War
  • Party
  • Stupid