"There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and criticize your little ones? I say it's not whether we should be ashamed of our fathers and mothers of the Old Confederacy. I say it's a question of whether they should be ashamed of us."
"You didn't want to bring home anything but an A or a B. To my mom, a C was like an F."
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Source: Calvin Miller (1990). “A Symphony in Sand”, W Publishing Group
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