Ku klux klan Quote by Ron Chernow

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.

— Harper Lee

“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 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

“At the time i didn't realize why there was so much Klan activity, but later I learned that it was because African-American soldiers werre…

— Rosa Parks

“A southerner by choice, Akerman found it sobering to verify the depth of Klan penetration in the region, which “revealed a perversion of moral…

— Ron Chernow

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

“The enemy was not the Klan but the inside-outside lock that racism and classism had on the minds of the people: It operated from…

— Junius Williams

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

In most of my encounters with Klan members, we would discuss reasons for why they were members in the first place.

— Daryl Davis

“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

“The focus on the Klan also helped to designate racism as an individual aberration rather than something systemic, institutional, and pervasive.12”

— Carol Anderson