Confederate Flag Quotes

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

  Howard Dean

  Guy, Flags, Want

  "Dems battle over Confederate flag". Des Moines Register Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 2, 2003.

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• For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no difference when we look at it. Now, white folks try to explain it away like, 'Oh, it's OK.' But when you're black, it is not OK. It represents oppression and murder.

  Ken Page

  White, Differences, Black

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• The Confederate flag represents the same thing to blacks as the Nazi flag represents to Jews,.

  Ken Page

  Flags, Nazi, Confederate

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• Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.

  Alexander H. Stephens

  War, Men, White Man

  Alexander H. Stephens' “Corner Stone” Speech, teachingamericanhistory.org. March 21, 1861.

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• Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

  Alexander H. Stephens

  Philosophical, Men, Race

  Cornerstone Speech, Delivered 21 March 1861, Savannah, Georgia

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• I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Race, White

  Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

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• I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Office, Favors

  Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

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• 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

  War, Thinking, Ties

  "Confederate Flag Debate Symbolizes Rapid Change In The South". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. June 23, 2015.

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• 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...

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Mean, Would Be, Flags

  "'The Five' debate the Confederate flag controversy". www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2015.

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

  Ezola B. Foster

  Hate, Class, Training

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• 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.

  John Oliver

  People, Flags, World

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• 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.

  Jack Hunter

  People, Flags, Who We Are

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.

  David Swanson

  War, Cities, Names

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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

  Rick Santorum

  Hatred, Flags, Confederate

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Donald Trump

  Museums, Flags, Confederate

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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

  Views, White, Long

  "Confederate Flag Debate Symbolizes Rapid Change In The South". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. June 23, 2015.

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• 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, Stupid, Party

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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

  Hate, War, Coffee

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• 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.

  Greg Gutfeld

  War, Mean, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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.

  Russell D. Moore

  People, Flags, Confederate

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  John Shelton Reed

  Southern, Historical, Flags

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• I intend to talk about race during this election in the South because the Republicans have been talking about it since 1968 in order to divide us. And I'm going to bring us together. Because you know what? You know what? White folks in the South who drive pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals in the back ought to be voting with us and not them, because their kids don't have health insurance either and their kids need better schools too.

  Howard Dean

  School, Kids, Race

  "Southern Exposure". www.motherjones.com. November 10, 2003.

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• 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.

  Rick Santorum

  Moving, Museums, Florida

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal. Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage. Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Spiritual, Dog, Mean

  "The Case for Reparations". www.theatlantic.com. June 2014.

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