"By its attempt to regulate and govern the……" — Strom Thurmond
"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 interpretations of long standing are being swept aside in favor of tortuous rationalizations which studiously ignore the constitutionally-forbidden imposition of involuntary servitude on citizens"
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Strom Thurmond
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15 Quotes by Strom Thurmond
Strom Thurmond has 15 quotes on this site.
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This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed.…
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Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield…
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This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion…
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All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our…
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We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.
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I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South,
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I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our…
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I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation…
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She walks well, she looks good. Let's see how she kisses.
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It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring…
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The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of…
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If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the…
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More Accommodations Quotes
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in…
— Mark Twain
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Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful…
— Jean Piaget
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The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with…
— Ernst Haeckel
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We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to…
— Peter Corning
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Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the…
— William Merritt Chase
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The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact…
— George Washington
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I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call…
— Salvador Minuchin
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Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic…
— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
— Alan Furst
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The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will…
— Samuel Johnson
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