Top 137 Confederate Quotes & Sayings

Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state.

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

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

The Confederate flag is a divisive presence - it's the opposite of everything my artistry means and represents.

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.

You might be a redneck if you are still holding on to Confederate money because you think the South will rise again.

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.

The only reason we used the Confederate flag was just because we were from the South, and we were proud of that.

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

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 Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.

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 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!'

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

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

The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

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.

Trump bumper sticker is the new Confederate flag. Absolutely. All Donald Trump is doing is making America hate again.

I think that it's appropriate to have the Confederate flag perhaps in a museum, but it is not a unifying symbol.

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

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.

However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic “body crystals,” flag stickers you attach to your skin. Personally, I’m small-minded and literal enough that I see the two symbols as contradictory, especially in a time of war. But I fear that the consumer who buys a Confederate flag coffee cup, which she will then put on her American flag place mat, is the sort of sophisticated thinker who is open-minded enough that she is capable of hating blacks and Arabs at the same time.

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.

I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.

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.

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

Had we settled in Pennsylvania, there's no way I would have written a Confederate novel.

Our property, we've taken the position that we're phasing out the Confederate flag.

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.

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

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

In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.

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.

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.

I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States.

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.

I am glad to see the Confederate battle flag gone from a place of honor at the South Carolina state capitol.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.

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.

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 still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up.

There is a sort of Neo-Confederate thread that runs through these sort of pro-gun movements and the NRA movement.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

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.