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Quotes About South

My father went south once, to answer the summons of a king. He never came home again.
~ George R.R. Martin
the guarantee of cheap labor was an effective means of luring new industries into the South; that so long as the ignorant white masses could be kept thinking of the menace of the Negro to Caucasian race purity and political control, they would give little thought to labor organization. It suddenly dawned upon Matthew Fisher that this Black-No-More treatment was more of a menace to white business than to white labor.
~ George S. Schuyler
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell; involving both parties in atrocious criminality and should be immediately annulled.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
All that Canada air coming south and turning us into Popsicles." She
~ J.R. Ward
we got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the darkness all around us was fragrant green grass and the smell of fresh manure and warm waters. 'We're in the South! We've left the winter!' Faint daybreak illuminated green shoots by the side of the road. I took a deep breath; a locomotive howled across the darkness, mobile-bound. So were we. I took off my shirt and exulted
~ Jack Kerouac
In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm going to be able to escape institutionalized racism. It's not as though my life won't be twisted and impacted by racism anymore. It will.
~ Jesmyn Ward
The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism.
~ Sonny Perdue
Down South, I have predominantly acted in typical candy-floss films, where I have played cheerful college-girl roles with songs and romantic scenes.
~ Pranitha Subhash
Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us, and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South.
~ George Wallace
People are just so passionate about football in the South. Great rivalries through the years. Unbelievable rivalries. It's healthy.
~ Archie Manning
It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.
~ William H. Seward
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
~ Taslima Nasrin
I am a south Indian, so I speak Tamil.
~ R. Madhavan
Specifically, I'm from the South Side of Atlanta. It's country, we live in our own little world, but it's cool.
~ Latto
I'm very loyal to my south fans and the industry there. So, it's hard for me leave all the love, respect, and admiration and shift base here. I'm a Mumbai girl and have lived here for most of my life. At the same time, I've spent 10 years of my life in the South and feel like a south Indian at heart.
~ Kajal Aggarwal
Lindsey Graham has wavered on this, but I won't: We need to ban offshore drilling. A spill off our beaches would destroy jobs and harm the coastal environment that makes South Carolina beautiful.
~ Jaime Harrison
America is a transplanted place. Families split and people travel 1,000 miles for a job, but the South is not yet like that. People live for three or four generations in the same town, even the same house.
~ Greg Iles
It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
~ Strom Thurmond
The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.
~ Timothy Thomas Fortune
North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.
~ Shelby Foote
If it's wearing red, yellow, or both, it's a lama," he said. "Bow to it." "Isn't that a camel from South America?
~ Neal Stephenson
An impressionistic map of the South China Sea has been dashed across these covers by molecularly reconstructed Ming Dynasty calligraphers using brushes of combed unicorn mane dipped into ink made of grinding down charcoal slabs fashioned by blind stylite monks from hand-charred fragments of the True Cross.
~ Neal Stephenson
political party was the Democrats. They oversaw the Jim Crow South and turned a blind eye to the thousands of lynchings25 that occurred there. The governors, the mayors, the police chiefs, the angry chanting mobs across the region, as seen in the ugliest footage of the Civil Rights movement, were all Democrats.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Despite the South's military setbacks, they retained their value for most of the war for the simple reason that the price of the underlying security, cotton, was rising as a consequence of increased wartime demand. Indeed, the price of the bonds actually doubled between December 1863 and September 1864, despite the Confederate defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, because the price of cotton was soaring.
~ Niall Ferguson