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The Confederate flag is a divisive presence - it's the opposite of everything my artistry means and represents.
Dianne Reeves
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Dianne Reeves
American
Musician
Born:
Oct 23
,
1956
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When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I'm not going to waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues. That's wasted energy.
Charles Barkley
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Statues
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Going
Waste
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I'm proud to be next to the Confederate flag. That flag is not - it is not about racism folks. It's not about hatred. It's not about slavery. It's about our heritage.
Corey Stewart
Racism
Hatred
Confederate
Heritage
Our
Folks
About
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Next
Slavery
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.
Alan Keyes
Time
Battle
Long
Long Time
Confederate
Stars
Stripes
High
High Seas
Sadly
Flag
Seas
Symbol
Slavery
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
Allen Tate
Art
History
Narcissism
Confederate
Would
Logically
Fact
No-One
Raw
Dead
Were
Historical
Historical Fact
Historically
Experiences
Cannot
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Connection
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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
Invent
Poet
Doctors
Become
Ambition
Confederate
Society
Else
Would
About
General
Could
Because
Been
Beg
According
Up
Personal
Personal Ambitions
Anything
Anything Else
Fictions
Use
Desire
Set
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
Amiri Baraka
Confederate
President
Counterfeit
Mississippi
Said
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Us
Even
Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.
Bill Nelson
Honor
Confederate
Statues
Historical
Place
Belong
Museum
We read of the courageous march south to battle the Confederate Army by the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Unlike their white counterparts, they understood from the beginning that they would be offered no quarter if captured alive.
Burgess Owens
Army
Battle
Beginning
Confederate
White
Unlike
Alive
Would
Would-Be
Volunteer
Counterparts
Massachusetts
Read
Courageous
Understood
Quarter
South
Infantry
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March
I'm from Anderson, S.C., but I grew up in the South. So I know what it is to ride to school and have Confederate flags flying from trucks in front of me and behind me, to see a parking lot full of people with Confederate flags and know what that means. I've been stopped by police for no reason.
Chadwick Boseman
Me
People
Ride
School
Police
Confederate
Flying
Anderson
See
No Reason
Parking
Parking Lot
Trucks
Know
Been
South
Lot
Up
Flags
Front
Behind
Stopped
Grew
Means
Full
Reason
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