#confederate

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. ↗

— Allen Tate

#according #anything #because #become #been

Note to secessionist Texans: now is the time to wave the Confederate Flag. ↗

— Melissa Harris-Lacewell

#flag #note #now #texans #time

Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the Reformed Faith in all its fullness. ↗

— Joseph C. Morecraft III

#confederacy #confederate-states-of-america #freedom #liberty #reformed-faith

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

#beat #broad #bush #candidate #confederate

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

— Amiri Baraka

#counterfeit #even #flag #legalized #mississippi

Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that any part of the Confederate army was near, there was great excitement over the demand for surrender. ↗

— James Longstreet

#army #before #city #confederate #demand

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

#confederate #especially #flag #given #going

I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#because #black #completely #confederate #folks

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#been #both #brainwashed #confederate #ethnic

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial. ↗

— William Safire

#answer #bandied #brought #call #colleague