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“Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.”

“I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful legacy and past... I think there are some Southerners, black and white, who feel as though the rest of the country looks down on the South as uneducated and backward. And for some people, that was a symbol of defiance against that.”

People Thinking Feels Looks Country Past Causes Black White Deals Battle South Symbols Legacy Division Flags Black And White Defiance Hurtful Uneducated Confederate Southerner

Author:Russell D. Moore

“Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!”

Years Sea Battle Thousand England Native Flags Thousand Years Breeze Mariners

Book:The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand

Source: The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand

“Each spilt drop of blood, in any country under whose flag one has not been born, is an experience passed on to those who survive, to be added later to the liberation struggle of his own country. And each nation liberated is a phase won in the battle for the liberation of one's own country.”

Country Nations Born Struggle Blood Battle Liberation Flags Phases Liberated

Book:Guerrilla Warfare

Source: Guerrilla Warfare

“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.”

Long Stars Sea Battle Long Time Slavery Symbols Flags Stripes Confederate American Flag Slave Trade High Seas

Author:Alan Keyes

“Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.”

Ifs Should Running Life Is Winning Battle Picks Fairs Passionate Flags Not Fair

Author:Bette Midler

“It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.”

Said Stills Done Universe Alive Sadness Battle Flags Sad Music

Author:Terry Pratchett