Some Relevant Quotes For Today, Re: the Confederate Flag

These quotes, from both ancient and modern times, say exactly what I am feeling tonight.  

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“Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.”
Sir William Wallace, 1281

“Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.”
Rose O’Neal Greenhow, Confederate Spy

“To me, the campaign by certain groups to remove all the symbols and memorials to our Southern past amounts to the same thing…a desecration of graves. Every flag or monument that is removed, every plaque taken down, every school or street or bridge that is renamed, is no different from a broken tombstone. It is wanton and hateful violence directed at the dead who can no longer defend themselves.”
John Field Pankow

“To tar the sacrifices of the Confederate soldier as simple acts of racism, and reduce the battle flag under which he fought to nothing more than the symbol of a racist heritage, is one of the great blasphemies of our modern age.”
James Webb-Secretary of Navy And Assistant Secretary of Defense under U.S. President Ronald Regan and current U.S. Senator (D.VA.) (Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, New York: Broadway Books, 2004, p. 225) [James Webb recently announced his candidacy for president on the Democratic ticket.  I would seriously consider voting for him, should he get the nomination.]

“The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.”
Winston Churchill

Source:  The Confederate Colonel

Quote of the Day: The Hartford Courant Journalists on the North's Involvement in Slavery

Several years ago, Aetna Insurance Company issued a public statement saying that they regretted having insured slaves in the antebellum period.  The Hartford Courant published a story about it, and three journalists from The Hartford Courant became interested in the North's involvement in American slavery.  They did some research, and were shocked to learn that the North's involvement was substantial.  They wrote a book entitled Complicity:  How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery. (In truth, the North was a lot more than merely complicit in slavery.  They were foundational.)

In the preface to their book, the three journalists wrote:

     What was true of Connecticut turned out to be overwhelmingly true of the entire North.  Most of what you'll read here was gleaned from older, often out-of-print texts, and from period newspapers, largely in Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts.
     We are Journalists, not scholars, and want to share what surprised, and even shocked, the three of us.  We have all grown up, attended schools, and worked in Northern states, from Maine to Maryland.  We thought we knew our home.  We thought we knew our country.
      We were wrong.

As quoted by Gene Kizer, Jr., Slavery Was Not the Cause of the War Between the States, page 257.

Quote of the Day: The Definition of Islamophobia

Islamophobia is the irrational fear of being beheaded.

--Andrew Klavan

Islamophobes

Quote of the Day: Fred on Feminists

Can you name one thing, with a moving part, that was invented by a feminist?

--Fred on Everything

Quote of the Day: The Greatest Killing Machine In The History of Mankind

The enormity of the slaughters of the "religion of peace" are so far beyond comprehension that even honest historians overlook the scale. When one looks beyond our myopic focus, Islam is the greatest killing machine in the history of mankind, bar none.

--Mike Konrad, The Greatest Murder Machine in History

Remember that when someone criticizes "Islamophobia."

Quote of the Day: The Power of Truth

Truth always annoys, frightens, and infuriates. The standard reaction to truth is not understanding or enlightened behavior. It is outrage.

J.R. Dunn, How Conservatives Can Defeat the Media

Quote of the Day -- The Biggest Obstacle to Fighting Islamic Supremacism

The foremost obstacle in confronting Islamic supremacism is an entrenched culture of self-hatred that denigrates anything and everything American and exalts the most inveterate America-haters as heroic underdogs.

Robert Spencer, from an Article in The Investigative Project on Terrorism

Spencer doesn't discuss it, but the American self-hatred of which he speaks is fomented by the left in both academia and the media.  It's intent is to erode America's will to resist its own destruction.

Quote of the Day -- or Why the Left Hates White People

The goals of the white-hating, leftist academics are described by David Horowitz in Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes:

Their goal remains the destruction of America's national identity and, in particular, of the moral, political, and economic institutions that form its social foundation.