Ku Klux Klan quotes
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"There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice."
"There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan."
"Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back."
"There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice."
"Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan."
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"I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. I'd say, okay, let's get with it, we'll all be nonviolent. But I don't go along with any kind of nonviolence unless everybody's going to be nonviolent. If they make the Ku Klux Klan nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. If they make the White Citizens Council nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. But as long as you've got somebody else not being nonviolent, I don't want anybody coming to me talking any nonviolent talk."
"As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash."
"Do people in the Ku Klux Klan who die and come back as ghosts have to wear two sheets when attending the rally?"
"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 my father believed that. I think everybody white did."
"It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march."
