Gone Quote by Harper Lee

“By 1872, under Grant’s leadership, the Ku Klux Klan had been smashed in the South. (Its later twentieth-century incarnation had no connection to the…

— Ron Chernow

It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Twas the night before Christmas, at a town in the South, A band of ex-Confederates gathered, down in the mouth; That the black man…

— Michael Farquhar

I am a former Kleagle [recruiter] of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County. The Klan is needed today as never before and I…

— Robert Byrd

It's hard for me to believe that the KKK still exists, especially knowing all my ancestors have been through. I feel like the history…

— Normani Kordei

Even if the KKK isn't the outsized presence it once was in this country, many of its principles and ideas are alive and well.

— W. Kamau Bell

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think…

— Kurt Vonnegut

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a…

— Woodrow Wilson

“It was 1970, and America was scarred by racial violence. Civil rights leaders had been gunned down in the streets, and communities across the…

— Julia Scheeres

“BY THE HUNDREDS, blacks cleared out of Groveland on the backs of citrus trucks. Others took blankets, food, and water and fled with their…

— Gilbert King

I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an era where…

— Nate Powell