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• When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded them as another man's slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.

  Rebecca Latimer Felton

  Country, War, Men

  Rebecca Latimer Felton (1919). “Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions”

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• The fifth province is not anywhere here or there, north or south, east or west. It is a place within each of us. It is that place that is open to the other, that swinging door which allows us to venture out and others to venture in.

  Mary Robinson

  Doors, East, Venture

  Fergus Finlay, Mary Robinson (1990). “Mary Robinson: A President With a Purpose”, O'Brien Pr

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• The developments in the North were those loosely embraced in the term modernization and included urbanization, industrialization,and mechanization. While those changes went forward apace, the antebellum South changed comparatively little, clinging to its rural, agricultural, labor-intensive economy and its traditional folk culture.

  C. Vann Woodward

  Urbanization, Culture, Industrialization

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• If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.

  Kinky Friedman

  Names, Would Be, Aces

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• I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy.

  John Lee Mahin

  Women, Up North, Southern

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• There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.

  Sean Taylor

  East, Stories, Four

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• The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans, and that we are citizens of the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.237, Pan Macmillan

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• Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

  Arthur Ashe

  Hero, Adversity, Black

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• Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

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• Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Book, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.366, Harvard University Press

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• We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

  Rose Bird

  Country, California, People

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• Some have held that there are only four winds: Solanus from the east; Auster from the south; Favonius from due west; Septentrio from the north. But more careful investigators tell us that there are eight.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Eight, Wind, East

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter VI, Section 4,

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• Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.

  William R. Ferris

  Struggle, Reflection, Poverty

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• If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.

  Jan Smuts

  Years, Would Be, Given

  Statement at the Imperial Conference, 1921.

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• South Africa needs a second liberation.

  Robert Mugabe

  Needs, Liberation, South Africa

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• I'm going to take my talents to South Beach.

  LeBron James

  Beach, Important, Miami Heat

  "LeBron James' Return To Cleveland Illustrates Remarkable Economic Experiment". "All Things Considered" with Kenny Malone, www.npr.org. May 25, 2017.

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• We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, War, Adversity

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• Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Honesty, Ignorance, Knowledge

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2007). “The Negro”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The security and happiness of all minority groups in South Africa depend on the Afrikaner. Whether they are English- or German- or Portuguese- or Italian-speaking, or even Jewish-speaking, makes no difference.

  P. W. Botha

  Italian, Differences, Groups

  Sunday Times, November 5, 2006.

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• We do not want chaos in South Africa.

  P. W. Botha

  Want, Chaos, South Africa

  Sunday Times, November 5, 2006.

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• The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.

  P. W. Botha

  Religious, Ideas, Long

  "Dictionary of South African Quotations" by Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, (p. 11), 1994.

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• It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who has put out my eyes to makea parade of my blindness,--to reproach me for my poverty when he has wronged me of my money.... If he is poor, what has become of the money he has been earning for the last two hundred and fifty years? Years ago it was said cotton fights and cotton conquers for American slavery. The Negro helped build up that great cotton power in the South, and in the North his sigh was in the whir of its machinery, and his blood and tears upon the warp and woof of its manufactures.

  Frances Harper

  Eye, Fighting, Men

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• It could be clearly proved that by a practical nullification [by the South] of the Fifteenth Amendment the Republicans have for several years been deprived of a majority in both the House and Senate. The failure of the South to faithfully observe the Fifteenth Amendment is the cause of the failure of all efforts towards complete pacification. It is on this hook that the bloody shirt now hangs.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Years, House, Effort

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• In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored people from organizing for the elections. The division there is still on the color line. Substantially all the whites are Democrats and all the colored people are Republicans. There is no political principle in dispute between them. The whites have the intelligence, the property, and the courage which make power. The negroes are for the most part ignorant, poor, and timid. My view is that the whites must be divided there before a better state of things will prevail.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Views, Color, People

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• ... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Attitude, Color, White

  Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.102, Pickle Partners Publishing

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