Grew Quote by Jeff Sessions

The Republican Party I grew up in was a Republican Party of family unity.

— Ana Navarro

As a Republican, I believe it's unfortunate that a perception still exists in the minds of some Americans that the GOP condones racism.

— Will Hurd

Segregation has never been a shadowy, impossible-to-pin-down conspiracy. It's been an American way of life.

— Jason Whitlock

We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as certainly [Louis]…

— Jeffrey Rosen

This is what the Republican party stands for, though: racism.

— Ed Schultz

Strom Thurmond the only segregationist anyone can name. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party had former Klansmen, members of a terrorist group that was lynching and…

— Ann Coulter

Only a few years after building a federal system that cleared the way for equal opportunity, Republicans faced a racist and xenophobic backlash against…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“What neither Warren nor most of the rest of us recognized was that segregation was not, as Nirej Sekhorn put it, simply a "taint"…

— Derrick Bell

So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with…

— Charles Evers

Back when they supported segregation, Lott and Thurmond were Democrats.

— Ann Coulter

The greatest leaders in fighting for an integrated America in the twentieth century were in the Democratic Party. The fact is, it was the…

— Newt Gingrich

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

— Rand Paul