South Quotes - Page 15

• When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.

  William R. Ferris

  War, Mean, White

  "Confederate Flag Debate Symbolizes Rapid Change In The South". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. June 23, 2015.

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• There are a lot of good comics, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is a bunch of situational comics - there are black comics that work only black crowds, gay comics that do only gay crowds, and southern comics that only work down South, and so on with Asian, Latino, Indian, midgets, etc. The previous generation's comics were better because they had to make everybody laugh.

  Chris Rock

  Gay, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• In 1996, a Republican governor in South Carolina tried to take the flag down. He was voted out.

  Sean Hannity

  South Carolina, Flags, Republican

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country.

  Sean Hannity

  Country, People, Alabama

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2015.

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• You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.

  Sean Hannity

  Flags, Want, Good Person

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.

  John Galsworthy

  Book, Men, Squares

  John Galsworthy (2015). “The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels”, p.1149, e-artnow

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• Vermonters, it seems to me, are like ethnics in their own land. They are exceedingly conscious of their difference from other Americans, and they talk a great deal about outsiders, newcomers, and people from the south.

  Jan Morris

  Land, Differences, People

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Opera Australia has a mix - it produces new work, it produces from the classical repertoire and, particularly in more recent years, it's done those blockbuster musicals which are very lucrative for it and reach an audience that classic opera or a new opera perhaps wouldn't reach, like South Pacific for example.

  George Brandis

  Years, Australia, Example

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

  Tom Morello

  People, Peaceful, Progressive Society

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.

  Benito Mussolini

  Lying, East, Asia

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• Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over the top of a high hill. To stand south of this ridge looking up at the highway flowing over the skyline is to receive one of those irrefutable impressions from landscape which requires more than a philosopher to explain. In this case it is undoubtedly, for some reason, one of exalted expectation.

  Hervey Allen

  Book, Expectations, Skylines

  Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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• We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  War, Divorce, Fighting

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• With the Lincoln assassination, the South didnt feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

  Candice Millard

  Slave Owners, People, Parent

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• I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

  Ronan Farrow

  Sibling, America, Long

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• And the art was in every corner and wall... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich in detail, painted by a student of the Fine Arts Academy of Chicago named Santiago Martinez; a name to remember.

  Santiago Martinez Delgado

  Art, Wall, Names

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• A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again.

  Rosemary Daniell

  New York, School, Visiting

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• I love a lot of things, a whole lot of things / Like / My cousin comes to visit and you know he's from the South /'Cause every word he says just kind of slides out of his mouth / I like the way he whistles and I like the way he walks / But honey, let me tell you that I love the way he talks.

  Eloise Greenfield

  Cousin, Talking, Mouths

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• The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was closely identified with the Franco and Salazar dictatorships in Spain and Portugal. . . . More recently, . . . the Serbian Orthodox Church has come to be identified with the policies of Serbia (Yugoslavia).

  Edd Doerr

  Government, Yugoslavia, White

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• The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Morning, Book, Yellow

  "Brown : The Last Discovery of America". Book by Richard Rodriguez, 2003.

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• The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Real, Differences, Cooking

  Gertrude Atherton (2014). “Senator North”, p.103, The Floating Press

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• New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.

  Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.

  Song, New York, Freedom Of Speech

  Speech at the University of Oregon, Nashville, 2004.

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• Even though I am very tied to and close to my heritage, I learned Spanish in college; I didn't grow up with it. Growing up in South Texas is different from Miami or L.A. where it is a necessity to speak Spanish.

  Eva Longoria

  Growing Up, College, Texas

  "Interview: Eva Longoria". www.blackstarnews.com. April 19, 2006.

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• I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. Its a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

  Gail Simmons

  Swimming, Rivers, Tree

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• Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.

  Laurie Holden

  Home, Community, Tree

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.

  Penelope Wilton

  Russia, America, House

  "Unspoken worlds" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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