Quotes of Southerner - somelinesforyou

“ The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The Southerner tends to look upon nature as something which is given and something which is finally inscrutable. This is equivalent to saying that he looks upon it as the creation of a Creator. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ From the day I was born, I began to learn my lessons. I learned it is possible to be a Christian and a white southerner simultaneously; to be a gentlewoman and an arrogant callous creature in the same moment; to pray at night and ride a Jim Crow car the next morning and to feel comfortable doing both… ”

- Lillian Smith
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