By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject the Government into the most sensitive areas of human contractual relations-agreements for personal services. In so doing, constitutional… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
An American should be able choose to work in a place where he is with his kind of people and not find that at… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny, and materially… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject the Government… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race. — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
