Rand Paul Quotes
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
Paul, Rand. Speech at Howard University. Washington, D.C., 10 Apr. 2013.
The Nixon "Southern Strategy" was that if the Republican Party made extensive efforts to appeal to minorities, given the previous decades of support of white supremacy, they would only be successful with a few, whereas if the Party went in the other direction and supported the Whites fighting against the Democratic initiated, racist hated, Civil Rights Act, they would get almost all the racist Southern Democrats, which were most white males and many white females. This racist policy enabled the Republicans to gain control of the Federal Government more often than not whereas before, it was very unusual.
Arkansas Governor Faubus ordered the national guard to prevent Black students from integrating Central High School in Little Rock. President Eisenhower was a man of action and not rhetoric and his lack of firm public statements overlooked an opportunity to use the Presidential “bully pulpit” and exercise his moral leadership and authority. Armstrong was irate at Eisenhower for appearing to do nothing and say nothing. See {615852}. When Eisenhower did enforce the court order and used Federal troops, Armstrong sent him this congratulatory telegram. His reference to walking into the schools was in support of many who suggested that the best thing the President could have done was to personally take one of the Black students by the hand and walk into the school with him or her. With the mood of the Southern racists, such an act was potentially very risky for the President and it is not known whether of not the President and his staff ever considered such an act.
At the time, the Southern segregationists were all Democrats and they blocked any Democratic attempt to pass any Civil Rights legislation. When he could not get a Civil Rights commitment from his own party, Powell turned to the Republicans and the President wrote this letter. In return, in November, Powell endorsed and supported Eisenhower instead of Stevenson, his own party’s nominee. Eisenhower could not get any legislation on Civil Rights as the Southern Democrats would always block it. When President Lyndon Johnson finally forced the 1963 Civil Rights Act through the Congress, the racist Southern Democrats cut a deal with Goldwater and the conservative Republicans, and switched parties. Since then the Civil Rights stance of the two parties reversed. The Democrats were thereafter pro Civil Rights and the Republicans, the party of Lincoln and Reconstruction, thereafter reversed their Civil Rights position and opposed progress in this area.
Before the civil rights act was passed, most labor unions will racist and discriminated against black workers. The United Auto Workers union was an exception and Reuther was a strong advocate of desegregation and equal rights.
Grady, representing what he called the New South pole kindly of Blacks in the North (See Quotation 643652), but gave his highly racist views to his Southern brethren—see Quotation 643649. He overtly in the North advocated liberty and the right to vote for Blacks (more than most Southerners at the time, but wanted the Federal role limited so that the enforcement of Black liberty and the voting franchise to be left to the States. And that is what occurred for the next half century. However, the state governments not only did not provide liberty and the voting franchise, the Southern States passed legislation and opted policies allowing KKK and other terror and intimidation so that Blacks would not exercise their rights to vote and be free. It is had to tell whether he was naive enough to believe that the Souther States would do what he claimed in the North or whether he not only realized what was likely to happen with the states in charge, but presented a moderate picture deliberately to keep the Federal government from interfering with the prerogative of the states to discriminate against Blacks. His racist views in his Southern speeches (for example, see quotation 643649) lead many to believe the latter view.
Randal Howard Paul is an American physician and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Kentucky since 2011. He is the son of former three-time presidential candidate and twelve-term U.S. Representative of Texas, Ron Paul.
