Southern Quotes - Page 20

• I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Might, Firsts, Slave

  Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868”, p.59, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• I have made some enemies. My enemies in the southern states consisted of those who oppressed the black slave. My enemies in the north are among those who would perpetuate the slavery of the wage workers

  Albert Parsons

  Black, Enemy, Slavery

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• A little bit South you've got Macon, Georgia - home of the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band and Capricorn Records. And off to west you've got Delta blues. Sprinkle Southern gospel over the top of that, and you're talking about where I came from. I loved all of that music.

  Travis Tritt

  Brother, Home, Talking

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• I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

  Charles Lyell

  Long Ago, Thames, Periods

  Charles Lyell (1873). “The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man with an Outline of Glacial and Post-tertiary Geology and Remarks on the Origin of Species with Special Reference to Mans First Appearance on the Earth by Charles Lyell”, p.202

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• During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Past, Years

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.

  Billy Collins

  Memories, Brain, Hemisphere

  Billy Collins (2012). “Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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• While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in a conflict in Syria – half a world away from the United States – more than 47,000 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006 in Mexico. A deeply troubled state as well as a demographic and economic giant on the United States’ southern border, Mexico will affect America’s destiny in coming decades more than any state or combination of states in the Middle East.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Destiny, America, People

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• People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Running, Thinking, People

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• I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.

  Bela Fleck

  Thinking, Years, White

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• If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Mountain, Would Be, Mount Rushmore

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• If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin.

  Joseph Goebbels

  War, Europe, Iron

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• I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.

  Henry Rollins

  Law, White, America

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• Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

  Henry Rollins

  War, Mind, Cotton

  "Professional Rebelling in 'Sweet Home Alabama,' I Coming Soon!" by Henry Rollins, digitalissue.laweekly.com. March 15, 2012.

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• In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.

  Phil Ochs

  Boys, Years, Law

  Song: Too Many Martyrs, Album: All the News That's Fit to Sing

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• The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Self

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• I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.

  Craig Brewer

  Christian, Dad, Baptists

  "Footloose's Craig Brewer, Julianne Hough, and Kenny Wormald". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. October 13, 2011.

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• I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the summer doing modeling and commercials and auditioning for Broadway. The mother I lived with for the summer taught me how to drop my Southern accent.

  Nikki DeLoach

  Summer, Mother, New York

  "Q&A: The Beautiful Nikki DeLoach of "Awkward"". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2013.

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• As a kid growing up in Southern California, I was a frequent visitor to the Disneyland and developed a deep love of the magic and wonder of Disney.

  Kidada Jones

  Growing Up, Kids, Deep Love

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• We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Australia, Climate, Plant

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

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• I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which I grew up was Texan and Southern, and it had many, many failings. I think I've gotten rid of most of the bad things in myself from that earlier age, but I don't adjust to the way things are progressing now.

  John Graves

  Thinking, Annoyed, Progress

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• The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words, to the threatening and more numerous Slavs-the more insecure and dangerous nationalism becomes.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Insecure, World, Threatening

  Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.52, Picador

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• I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.

  Preet Bharara

  New York, Years, United States

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• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

  Henry Rollins

  Rights, Law, President

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• You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  War, Redneck, Might

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• I don't necessarily think of it as Southern comedy. I just think I'm a comedian and I have a Southern accent.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Thinking, Comedian, Comedy

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