In Their Own Words

You'll never convince me with that tired stale bullshit about "honor and tradition" and blah blah blah.

The Monument Fund (hacked)

"Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."

Alexander Stephens
Vice President of the Confederate States of America

"We recognize the fact of the inferiority stamped upon that race of men by the Creator, and from the cradle to the grave, our Government, as a civil institution, marks that inferiority."

"It would grant me much relief to learn your sons were engaged matrimonially to other white men if I was previously faced with the spectre of those same sons wedding negro women, slave or free, and siring negro sons that could presume to claim inheritance of your namesakes and property, or worse, equality with your purer grandchildren."

Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of America

"The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially & physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing, is necessary for their instruction as a race, & I hope will prepare & lead them to better things. How long their subjugation may be necessary is known & ordered by a wise Merciful Providence."

Gen. Robert E. Lee
Army of Northern Virginia, CSA

"I’ve never heard of any other cause than slavery”

Col. John S. Mosby
43rd Battalion (Mosby's Rangers), Virginia Cavalry, CSA

"This fight is against slavery; if we lose it, you will be made free."

Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest
3rd Tennessee Cavalry, CSA
(first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan)