(18 quotes found)
“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.”
Howard Dean
“The Confederate flag represents the same thing to blacks as the Nazi flag represents to Jews,”
Ken Page
“I think if we are realistic, the South - the old Confederate states - really only has one entirely unique feature that other parts of the country don't have, and that is this nearly 400-year history of tremendous intimacy, in every sense of the word, good and evil, between two very different kinds of peoples: people who were brought here against their wishes from Africa and a largely Anglo-white population.”
Reynolds Price
“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.”
“It was discovered by the British, and, of course, given to Canada as part of its Confederation, and therefore, it forms an integral part of our territory.”
Dan McTeague
“The members of the Open Root Server Confederation believe that the process has gone astray.”
Einar Stefferud
“There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and criticize your little ones? I say it's not whether we should be ashamed of our fathers and mothers of the Old Confederacy. I say it's a question of whether they should be ashamed of us.”
Calvin Johnson
“I was in a no-win situation. To 50 percent of the world, the Confederate flag represents heritage, but to the other half it means racism. I'm not here to draw that line. This is a restaurant. It's not a place for politics.”
Zach Doulaveris
“It really was the Confederate currency that got it started. Dick's contribution was one of the first that was significant enough for us to know the Atlanta History Center was going to be able to acquire Sherman's orders.”
Seth Kaller
“I'm reminding them to look at the big picture, at what we contribute to the Confederation,”
Ralph Klein
