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
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi. – Amiri Baraka
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
Had we settled in Pennsylvania, there’s no way I would have written a Confederate novel. – Donald McCaig
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
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. – Robert Dale Owen
