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The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

~Alan Keyes

Topics: Battle Confederate Flag High Long Long Time Sadly Seas Slavery Stars Stripes Symbol Time

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It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper article. The story said there were 19 women still on the pension payroll who were Confederate war widows. They were women who very early in their lives had married very old men.

~Allan Gurganus

Topics: After Article Aside Confederate Day Early Had Lives Married Men Newspaper Novel Old Old Men One Day Payroll Pension Put Read Said Still Story Very War Were Who Widows Women Working

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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

Topics: Art Cannot Confederate Connected Connection Dead Even Experiences Fact Historical Historically History Logically Narcissism Raw Stand Were Would

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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

Topics: About According Ambition Anything Anything Else Because Become Been Beg Confederate Could Desire Doctors Else General Invent Personal Poet Set Society Up Use Would

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

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Confederate Counterfeit Even Flag Mississippi President Said Us

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Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.

~Bill Nelson

Topics: Belong Confederate Historical Honor Museum Place Statues

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I salute South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Lindsey Graham for their calls to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the Statehouse.

~Bob Beckel

Topics: Battle Calls Carolina Confederate Flag Graham Grounds Remove Salute South South Carolina

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We read of the courageous march south to battle the Confederate Army by the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Unlike their white counterparts, they understood from the beginning that they would be offered no quarter if captured alive.

~Burgess Owens

Topics: Alive Army Battle Beginning Captured Confederate Counterparts Courageous Infantry March Massachusetts Offered Quarter Read South Understood Unlike Volunteer White Would

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I'm from Anderson, S.C., but I grew up in the South. So I know what it is to ride to school and have Confederate flags flying from trucks in front of me and behind me, to see a parking lot full of people with Confederate flags and know what that means. I've been stopped by police for no reason.

~Chadwick Boseman

Topics: Anderson Been Behind Confederate Flags Flying Front Full Grew Know Lot Me Means No Reason Parking Parking Lot People Police Reason Ride School See South Stopped Trucks Up

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I'm not going to waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues. That's wasted energy.

~Charles Barkley

Topics: About Confederate Energy Going My Time Statues Time Waste Wasted Worrying

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