Quotes About The 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. 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

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

Anonymous

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Ken Page

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Financial capital - the wherewithal for mass marketing - has steadily replaced social capital - that is, grassroots citizen networks - as the coin of the realm.

Robert D. Putnam

#17. I admire you. And I admire the battle you are waging with your heart.

Paulo Coelho

#18. I love doing comedy. Absolutely love it. After 'Wedding Crashers,' people suddenly realized that it was something I could do.

Jane Seymour

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. When I was doing poorly at school, my father yanked me out and got me a job in a shoe factory. After three weeks, I begged him to give me another chance at doing well in school. I learned that discipline is necessary to accomplish anything in life.

Ivana Trump

#23. 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

#24. 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

#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. That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

Lynn Abbey

#27. Laws of good intention are really of no use unless there are good people to enforce them.

J. Lloyd Morgan

#28. The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.

J.C. Ryle

#29. There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.

Frederick Lenz

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

Rick Santorum

#31. I'm married, honey. My social life consists of work, church, taxiing the kids around and trying to schedule sex with my husband at least once a month.

Marilyn Pappano

#32. 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

#33. I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.

Marissa Mayer

#34. Rodney the ghoul? ... Oh, I liked him. He didn't get angry no matter how many times my mother insulted him.

Jeaniene Frost

#35. Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?"
"Yep."
"Is he carrying the moon on his pitchfork?"
"Nope it's a pie.

Ilona Andrews

#36. She felt like she was leaving home, and had no idea when she'd be back again, if ever.

Danielle Steel

#37. He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

Thomas B. Macaulay