Quotes about the Confederate Flag

In my recent reading I have come across the three quotes below about the Confederate Flag.  It is heartening to hear what these respected leaders have had to say about the revered symbol of the Confederate States of America.

“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."

--Alan Keyes, Ph.D, Harvard
Author, former United Nations Amasador and Assistant Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan






"The Confederate flag is not a symbol of racism … the flag does not offend me personally. I grew up in the South – in Texas. That flag doesn’t represent anything other than regional pride. It’s a time in our history that we just can’t erase.”

-- Laura Bush, former First Lady of the United States

"The flap over the Confederate flag is not quite as simple as the nation's race experts make it. They want us to believe the flag is a symbol of racism. Yes, racists have used the Confederate flag, but racists have also used the Bible and the U.S. flag. Should we get rid of the Bible and lower the U.S. flag? Black civil rights activists and their white liberal supporters who're attacking the Confederate flag have committed a deep, despicable dishonor to our patriotic black ancestors who marched, fought and died to protect their homeland from what they saw as Northern aggression."

-- Walter E. Williams, Professor at George Mason University, and a nationally syndicated columnist.