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[Confederate flag] it's a symbol of racial hatred.
I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.
I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up.
It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.
Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.
Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
Our property, we've taken the position that we're phasing out the Confederate flag.
Had we settled in Pennsylvania, there's no way I would have written a Confederate novel.
The Confederate flag represents the same thing to blacks as the Nazi flag represents to Jews,.
I'm not going to waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues. That's wasted energy.
Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
I am glad to see the Confederate battle flag gone from a place of honor at the South Carolina state capitol.
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.
The Confederate flag is a divisive presence - it's the opposite of everything my artistry means and represents.
The only reason we used the Confederate flag was just because we were from the South, and we were proud of that.
I think that it's appropriate to have the Confederate flag perhaps in a museum, but it is not a unifying symbol.
Trump bumper sticker is the new Confederate flag. Absolutely. All Donald Trump is doing is making America hate again.
Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.
NASCAR - everybody thinks redneck, Confederate flags, racists. And I hate it. I hate it because I know NASCAR is so much more.
I don't fly the Confederate flag on my property, but I'm not going to try to belittle or embarrass anybody who wants to do that.
Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state.
The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say...'How can you subdue such a nation as this!'
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.
On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, incongruously in this company, one of Arthur Ashe.
For me, the things like the Confederate flag - I just don't think that it does anybody much good, and it certainly causes a lot of people a lot of pain.
No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race, so it starts with Confederate flags. Get them out of here. They have no place for them.
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.
Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
I'm proud to be next to the Confederate flag. That flag is not - it is not about racism folks. It's not about hatred. It's not about slavery. It's about our heritage.
To me, poetry is spoken - not exclusively, but there's a mix of languages in it. That's what I liked about 'For the Confederate Dead;' it has many different tones to it.
The rainbow flag is beautiful because it's about love. The Confederate flag is ugly because it's about hate. It's pretty simple from the art level: beautiful versus ugly.
I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats.
In South Carolina, the Confederate flag flies high on countless flagpoles. Those who defend this practice by saying it is part of Southern culture are lying to themselves.
The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of amity between the two sections.
We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.
The America that clings to Confederate statues and flags, and that jealously guards the social privileges white Americans have long enjoyed, form the stalwarts of Trump's base.
Now, that doesn't mean that individuals can't have Confederate flags on their property. They have the right to do that. But again, it represents something that is not unifying.
The people that don't want change, the ones that don't see how removing Confederate flag creates so much more opportunities for our sport to grow - they don't want our sport to grow.
It's head-scratching, really, that the most prominent Army base in America is named for Braxton Bragg. He was on the wrong side of history, as a Confederate general and a slave owner.
My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.
A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.
Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that any part of the Confederate army was near, there was great excitement over the demand for surrender.
I do not like the Confederate flag. It excludes me, profoundly. And if many good people fought honorably to defend it, I still experience the sight of it as a little racial aggression against me.
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.
I've always felt strongly that the Confederate flag and other symbols like that are not representative of Nascar, even though I respect anyone's right, because it does mean different things to different people.
When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.