Southern Quotes - Page 27

• Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.

  John Darnielle

  Past, Years, Wings

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If Paulus's army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces against Paulus and against the southern front, where I had only two Romanian armies. Therefore, the resistance of the Sixth German Army, even to the death of the last man, was necessary.

  Erich von Manstein

  Army, Men, Two

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group rivaled only by the Democrat Party. The Southern Poverty Law Center... Folks, if there's anything you should ignore - and there are a lot of things you should ignore - put the Southern Poverty Law Center on the list.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Party, Poverty

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Liberals say this over and over and over again to hide the actual history, which is why I go through the specifics on the big segregationists in the United States Senate, the ones who signed the Southern Manifesto and the ones who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. There's a panoply of issues to consider. The first time they objected to the Federal government doing something was when it came to civil rights legislation. This is in stark contrast to the very few Republicans who voted against the '64 Civil Rights Act.

  Ann Coulter

  Civil Rights, Republican, First Time

  Source: aalbc.com

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• To go too much another way, for the sake of my ego in wanting to create something... in the situation of Superman is just wrong. Especially since we're continuing, in a sense, that story. The characters have to feel somewhat similar. What are you going to do with Superman? The world, and all the people that have created it, created him and have all kind of come together to make this image. Everybody kind of has the same idea of what it should be. So for me to go, "Okay, no, I think he should have a southern accent." Or something crazy, just doesn't make any sense.

  Brandon Routh

  Crazy, Character, Thinking

  "Talking the Man Of Steel with Superman Returns Brandon Routh". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. June 22, 2006.

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• As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized...The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions.

  H. L. Mencken

  College, Thinking, Ymca

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• The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.

  Tom Brokaw

  Epic, Cities, America

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• Some people think that Southern hip-hop doesn't have any depth. They think it's just noise, all about people having a good time in the club. And some of it doesn't have a lot of depth, it's true, but some does. I wanted to work against that stereotype. These are verses by Southern artists who are really wrestling with what it means to be here, young black men who are trying to figure out how to live in the South. So I wanted the epigraphs in my novels to reflect that.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Mean, Wrestling, Artist

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Americans are experiencing a general hunger for authentic regional cuisine, of which Southern food represents one of the best and oldest examples.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Hunger

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.

  Houari Boumediene

  Son, Men, Giving

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• Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Native American, Culture, Native

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I'm asked to define "Southern food," I usually turn that question back to my audience and ask them what they think. I hear responses like fried chicken, catfish, barbecue, collard greens, and sweet potatoes. These are excellent examples, because they are historically grounded. You can trace each dish back to the people who brought these food traditions to the South. Today, these foods are central to the core culinary grammar of the American South.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Sweet, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Southern food that appears in contemporary popular culture is so exaggerated that it's hardly recognizable to most Southerners. This enriching of Southern food - fatter, richer, more over the top - is what we typically see on TV, in Hollywood films, and in Southern-style or country-themed chains like Cracker Barrel. Southern food becomes a caricature, like characters and props in a reality TV show.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Character, Reality, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Opportunity, Government, Fabric

  Thaddeus Stevens (1998). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868”, p.23, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• The South is about the abundance, beauty, and richness of Southern culture, but also its dark underside. The history of Southern food reflects the history of slavery, of poverty, of the negotiation of power.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Dark, Culture, Slavery

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Terroir - the taste of place - was important from the early South of the first Indian, African, and Europeans to the nineteenth-century South. During that time, Southerners ate far more locally and seasonally, from the ground they knew and grew up on. That idea connects back to today. You are a place. And as a Southerner, the food you place in your body speaks of your personal history, and of the broader Southern history.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Important, Today, Speak

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The working poor in the South are often blamed for their reliance on "traditional" Southern food, while in reality, most are eating the same heavily processed, cheap, convenience foods that the majority of working people eat across the United States.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Reality, People, Eating

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I did my last year of high school as an exchange student. I lived south of the Atlanta, in a quite strange place - real southern. I formed my first band that year and we just started playing my songs live. It was way in for me to get to know people and to really feel at home there - through music.

  Anna Ternheim

  Song, Real, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn't in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York, and I had that thick Southern accent. I still talk Southern, but I can do without it.

  Beth Grant

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

  John Scalzi

  California, Cliche, Grew Up

  "John Scalzi: the internet's troll-slayer" by Erin McCann, August 27, 2013.

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• I want my fellow citizens to wise up and stop falling for [war]. I try with my limited access, I'm not getting into Kabul with a camera, they're not letting me get into Benghazi with a camera. I do what I can with my flimsy American passport and a visa. The photos are a bit more heavy from Southern Sudan and Haiti and Cuba.

  Henry Rollins

  Wise, War, Fall

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with either family or values, nor does it really have anything to do with homosexuals, abortionists, or pornographers. Those groups actually only serve as windmills to tilt at. The true agenda is power - power over the intellectually weak, emotionally immature, and ethically deficient Americans who are incapable of critical thinking and independent decision-making, and who are easily manipulated by the basest of human emotions - fear and the desire for revenge.

  Morris Sullivan

  Revenge, Independent, Thinking

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• When man sends colonies into space, he will be able to mount moveable, sun-reflecting mirrors to simulate rhythms of day and night and even the terrestial seasons...But he doubtless will follow the longstanding American habit of thinking that outer space should, as much as possible, resemble Southern California.

  Lance Morrow

  Night, Men, Thinking

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• A lot of people dont understand how cargo coming into our ports matters, not just to Southern California but to every single congressional district. I want to educate on that issue.

  Janice Hahn

  California, Issues, People

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• No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

  Peter Mayle

  Matter, Backgrounds, Fascinated

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