Confederate Quotes

You see, the Confederate flag flying above the statehouse flies in a vacuum, ... The Klan can misuse it as a racist tool, as it has, and others can misuse it solely as a symbol for racism, as they have. - David Beasley

Yesterday I put on my Confederate uniform for the first time and looked like a fairy doorman at the Beverly Wiltshire - a fine thing at my age. - Leslie Howard

When you have an opportunity to see the 200-foot change in elevation, when people come out here and walk, they can see the terrain stopped the Union advance as much as the Confederate soldiers did. You don't get much of an idea from your car. - Brian Baracz

When a Texas school insisted on hoisting the Confederate flag every morning, Governor Bush said it was not a state but a local issue. And they called me slick! - Bill Clinton

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi. - Amiri Baraka

They are basically saying students can't express themselves by wearing anything with a Confederate flag on it. - Kirk Lyons

There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and criticize your little ones? I say it's not whether we should be ashamed of our fathers and mothers of the Old Confederacy. I say it's a question of whether they should be ashamed of us. - Calvin Johnson

There are all kinds of interesting stories about Confederates in this area helping Breckinridge and Davis to escape right through Lake County. The (Civil) War was over, but the network was still there. - Diane Kamp