Country Quote by Woodrow Wilson

“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

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to…

— Anonymous

“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

“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

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

“If we had learned anything over the last decade, it was that there was no other way to defeat slavery, except with a willingness…

— Russell Banks

As a black man, I actually had naturally sort of comedic curiosity about the Klan.

— W. Kamau Bell

It was extremely dangerous to be a black man in the KKK. If I'd been exposed, it could have all gone horribly wrong. The…

— Ron Stallworth

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

“To discourage slaves from meeting or escaping, slave owners told tales of gruesome research done on black bodies, then covered themselves in white sheets…

— Rebecca Skloot

“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