Strom Thurmond Quotes

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• This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government…
• Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny, and materially hasten…
• This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of…
• 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…
• All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement,
• We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.
• I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South,
• I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor,…
• I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great…
• She walks well, she looks good. Let's see how she kisses.
• It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
• The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.
• If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which…
• Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no…
• I don't think it's a question of age as much as it's a question of what kind of shape you're in.

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