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Southern United States Quotes

“The overseer’s whip is now fully supplanted by the lash of hunger! And the auction block by the chain-gang and convict cell”

Poverty Racism Slavery Prison Hunger Southern United States Southern Usa Black Codes

Author:Lucy Parsons

“Is it really true, Sailor, that Alabama has a king?" Sidney asked. "The south has always been a monarchy in some form or another. Everybody thinks they're the king of something here. People, land, business.”

Kings South Monarchy Monarchs Alabama Southern United States Southern Usa

Book:Sky Full of Elephants

Source: Sky Full of Elephants

“If a person were to ask me what I saw South, I should tell him stink weed, sand, rattlesnakes, and alligators. To tell the honest truth, our boys out on picket look sharper for snakes than they do for rebels.”

American Civil War Us Civil War The South Southern United States Yankee Soldiers

Book:On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front

Source: On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front

“As the Grateful Dead said, and writers' can attest to: Sometimes the light is shining on me, other times I can barely see; but lately, its occurred to me-What A Long Strange Trip Its Been.”

Writing Adventure Writing Life Music Quotes Southern United States

Book:Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip

Source: Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip

“In the South, we knew our adversary would stop at nothing to silence our activism. We knew we could never match his readiness to annihilate our resistance. So we ceded him that ground and challenged him instead to defend himself against the work of loving peace.”

Love Peace Violence South Activism Civil Rights Race Relations Civil Rights Movement Social Movements Southern United States

Book:Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America

Source: Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America