Quotes About Confederate Flag

#1. Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes.

Ezola B. Foster

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

Amiri Baraka

#3. It's time for the [Confederate] Flag to come down, because it just doesn't represent who we are as a people, as Americans anymore.

Jack Hunter

#4. The Confederate flag was the flag of the American South during the civil war. It was the flag of people who were fighting against their own government in an attempt to retain slavery. It was the flag of people who thought slavery was no problem, who thought slavery was a good thing.

John Niven

#5. The only argument you can make against having [Confederate] flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag ...

Whoopi Goldberg

#6. Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.

Donald Trump

#7. I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.

William R. Ferris

#8. The next great First Amendment battleground is just six inches high. It is a license plate bearing the Confederate flag.

Anonymous

#9. 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.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#10. Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

John Shelton Reed

#11. The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back to the pro-slavery side of the war.

Greg Gutfeld

#12. The Confederate flag is one of those things that should only be seen on t-shirts, belt buckles and bumper stickers to help the rest of us identify the worst people in the world.

John Oliver

#13. [Confederate flag] it's a symbol of racial hatred.

Rick Santorum

#14. We have, for generations, been trying to be more inclusive of the word Southern. And a symbol like the confederate flag indicates white only are allowed into that world. And removing the Confederate flag from public view to the pages of history is long overdue.

William R. Ferris

#15. For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no difference when we look at it. Now, white folks try to explain it away like, 'Oh, it's OK.' But when you're black, it is not OK. It represents oppression and murder.

Ken Page

#16. The Confederate flag represents the same thing to blacks as the Nazi flag represents to Jews,.

Ken Page

#17. I heard someone say that concern over the [Confederate] Flag is sensitivity to micro-aggressions, to which my response is to say that kidnapping and enslaving people, breaking up families, terrorizing families, if that's not a macro-aggression, I don't know what is.

Russell D. Moore

#18. My position on how to address the Confederate flag is clear. In Florida, we acted, moving the flag from the state grounds to a museum, where it belonged.

Rick Santorum

#19. A chart on the door of my room that outlined the procedures that could be performed to reduce the swelling and pressure on my brain. On the fifth day they told my parents I was at the bottom of the chart and that there was nothing else they could do.

Amy Rankin

#20. I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which (Abraham) Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago

Howard Dean

#21. A thing when I was writing the movie [The hateful eight] was, I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika. So I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.

Quentin Tarantino

#22. A Dandy does nothing.

Charles Baudelaire

#23. 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

#24. I regularly watch the scorecards of all Ranji matches.

Greg Chappell

#25. I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika.

Quentin Tarantino

#26. In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.

Christina Lauren

#27. He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

James A. Garfield

#28. I love you, Caitlin.
I leaned in and kissed him, holding back the tears in the realization that he was able to put into words what I was willing to lose my life over.

Anna Lazaridis

#29. Actors are actors. They're all buddies. I've done so many movies and TV that you get to be friends with everyone. And the ones you don't get to be friends with, you simply don't work together with them again.

Michael Rooker

#30. There are no uncontaminated angels

Philip Roth

#31. The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can't bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.

Sharon Salzberg

#32. Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

Horace

#33. I think, in many people's minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would've been OK.

Jimmy Carter

#34. So now books were her only friends. She'd read Lord of the Rings so often she could recite whole scenes by memory.
It was not a skill that aided one in becoming popular.

Kristin Hannah

#35. Unapologetically be yourself everyday in every way.

Sara Secora

#36. One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth.

Big Boi

#37. ABYSS
Our country lives
Among the dead
And dies among the living
Sometimes.

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