Whoopi Goldberg Quotes

The Confederate Flag is just a symbol of states’ rights and the Swastika is just a Tibetan good luck charm.

I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika.

I have white friends who have the Confederate flag on their license plates, and I have no issue with that if they see that as a matter of heritage. But I do not think it should ever fly over a state, city, county building, or school, for the simple reason that it represents secession from the Union.

[Confederate flag] it's a symbol of racial hatred.

The Confederate flag is one of those things that should only be seen on t-shirts, belt buckles and bumper stickers to help the rest of us identify the worst people in the world.

Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and confederate swastika flying side by side.

I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.

In South Carolina, the Confederate flag flies high on countless flagpoles. Those who defend this practice by saying it is part of Southern culture are lying to themselves.

My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.

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.

The Confederate flag was the flag of the American South during the civil war. It was the flag of people who were fighting against their own government in an attempt to retain slavery. It was the flag of people who thought slavery was no problem, who thought slavery was a good thing.

South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of the state capitol. Because I grew up in the South and believe that the Confederate flag is a very divisive symbol, I have stated publicly a number of times that I believe that South Carolina should remove the flag from the state capitol grounds.

It takes some serious mental gymnastics to think of the Confederacy only as a romantic lost cause.

What we fly today is not an enduring symbol of our heritage, but the fighting flag of those who wanted to preserve a segregated South.

The South was right. Say it! Say it!

For me, the things like the Confederate flag - I just don't think that it does anybody much good, and it certainly causes a lot of people a lot of pain.

I am glad to see the Confederate battle flag gone from a place of honor at the South Carolina state capitol.

I salute South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Lindsey Graham for their calls to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the Statehouse.

The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.

It's less to do about me - 'Hey, I'm black and it hurts my feelings; it's a symbol of slavery and oppression' - and more to do with the fact that, as an American, I will not honor a group of treacherous traitors. That's why I despise the rebel flag.

If your great-great-grandfather participated on the Confederate side, and you hold some sentimental value to that, and you want to fly the flag and hang their picture up in your home, that's fine. But it should not be on anything that taxpayers pay for, because taxpayers are a part of the Union, not the Confederacy.

No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race, so it starts with Confederate flags. Get them out of here. They have no place for them.

The only reason we used the Confederate flag was just because we were from the South, and we were proud of that.