South Quotes - Page 5

• Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all!. . . The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us."

  Vivien Leigh

  Tired, Yankees, Effort

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• You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and Cable burgers hard by the Golden Gate, Dixie burgers in the sunny South and Yankee Doodle burgers in the North....We had a Capitol Burger - guess where. And so help us, in the inner courtyard of the Pentagon, a Penta burger.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Stars, Yankees

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• Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not be haunted as it is by a deep sense of guilt for what it has done to the Negro - guilt for patronizing him, degrading him, brutalizing him, depersonalizing him, thingifying him; guilt for lying to itself. This is the source of the schizophrenia that the South will suffer until it goes through its crisis of conscience.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Lying, Heart, White

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.

  Quincy Jones

  Kids, Dope, Years

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.

  Bill Kurtis

  Mars, South Dakota, Dies

  Source: www.npr.org

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• South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner

  Robert Mugabe

  Men, White Man, Black

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• My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.

  Antony Sher

  Grandparent, Lithuania, South Africa

  "Antony Sher: 'Painting and writing stop me going crazy'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2012.

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• I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.

  Antony Sher

  Gay, White, Three

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• Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

  Calvin Jillson

  Texas, Helping, Election

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• At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'

  Desmond Tutu

  Moving, Home, Black And White

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Peacemaker in a Diverse Nation". www.csmonitor.com. October 26, 1994.

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• Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. Give no quarter to that thought, whether it threatens you with fear, or tempts you with hopes. For this is Superstition and all who believe it will come in the end to the swamps, to the south and the jungles, to the far south. Part of the same error is to think that the Landlord is a real man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Believe, Men

  "The Pilgrim's Regress". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 117, 1933.

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• When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble - until the day of disaster.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sea, Law, Wonderful

  "Galbraith on Crashes, Japan and Walking Sticks" by Ben Laurance and William Keegan, The Observer, June 21, 1998.

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• I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.

  Arthur Ashe

  Brother, Names, Black

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• Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic... being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why they emigrated is not exactly clear, but many scholars believe it was because they saw the way Sweden was going, i.e. neutral.

  Alan Coren

  Believe, Sweden, Way

  "The Sanity Inspector". Book by Alan Coren, 1974.

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• The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Guilt, He Man

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• When Spring is old, and dewy windsBlow from the south, with odors sweet,I see my love, in shadowy groves,Speed down dark aisles on shining feet.

  Maurice Thompson

  Sweet, Spring, Dark

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• I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Thinking, California, Guy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Made, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd been keeping tour diaries, and especially when I go somewhere where I felt the experience might be interesting, like Eastern Europe or South America or whatever, where the whole perception of what I was doing there and stuff that I was seeing and music I was hearing, I could put all that into a diary.

  David Byrne

  America, Europe, Interesting

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

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• Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Hips, Retarded

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2006.

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• And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Horse, War, Puff

  'The Ballad of the King's Jest' (1892)

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• People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Korea, People, Republic

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• If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Korea, Support, Needs

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• I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices yet in New Delhi or Jaipur.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Office, India, Roger

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• For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

  Athol Fugard

  Men, Rocks, Miracle

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