A Quote by Madison Cawthorn

I'm not against pulling down our statues of Confederate generals and Confederate leaders.

Madison Cawthorn

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Against Confederate Down Generals Leaders Our Pulling Statues

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Madison Cawthorn
American - Politician
Born: August 1, 1995

I reject the mobs tearing down statues of our history - north and south, Union and Confederate, founding fathers and veterans.

Tate Reeves

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

Bill Nelson

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

Charles Barkley

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

Harper Lee

When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have lionized these people, and we have romanticized their courage and their commitment and their tenacity, and we have completely eliminated the reality that created the Civil War.

Bryan Stevenson

On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, incongruously in this company, one of Arthur Ashe.

Frank Deford

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

At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective suitors. Thousands of men flocked to the Confederate capital of Richmond, prepared to work in one of the government departments or to train for duty in the Army.

Karen Abbott

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.

Joy Reid

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

South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of the state capitol. Because I grew up in the South and believe that the Confederate flag is a very divisive symbol, I have stated publicly a number of times that I believe that South Carolina should remove the flag from the state capitol grounds.

John Edwards

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

Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil War transforming Confederate crimes into virtues. It is illegal to fly the Nazi flag in Germany. The Confederate flag is enmeshed in the state flag of Mississippi.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

In many ways, the North won the Civil War militarily and then lost the peace. You know, a group of writers, included many Confederate generals, began a school of thought called the Lost Cause in which they began to romanticize the Confederacy.