Southern Usa Quotes

“A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is like a protestation against a first waft of ether.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz

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

“Never since the days of the Spartan Helots has history recorded such brutality as has been ever since the war and as is now being perpetrated upon the Negro in the South. How easy for us to go to Russia and drop a tear of sympathy over the persecuted Jew. But a step across Mason's and Dixon's line will bring us upon a scene of horrors before which those of Russia, bad as they are, pale into insignificance! No irresponsible, blood-thirsty mobs prowl over Russian territory, lashing and lynching its citizens.”
― 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.”
― Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants