Jerry Falwell Quotes
Integration would lead to miscegenation, which will destroy our white race eventually.
Jerry Falwell, 1933-2007, Baptist Cleric, Founder, The Moral Majority, Sermon, 1958, Quoted in Max Blumenthal, "Agent of Intolerance", The Nation. May 2007
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Darwin was not only favorable towards Blacks—see {621212}—but thought the political opposition to racial intermarriage and interbreeding unscientific. He believed that science could demonstrate that there was no genetic deterioration in miscegenation. Today there has been enough biracial marriage and children that it is clear that there is no difference in intelligence or other important characteristics. Despite this, the claim of racial destruction has been the claim of Nazis and other racists. See {621215}
Bilbo was one of the worst racists who ever served in the Congress.
Warren a Republican from California who knew Palmer for years, stood up, put his arm around Palmer and told him, “Kyle, you and I will always be friends” and walked out.
He was advocating separation of the races.
Jessie Helms was his young assistant who drafted this race baiting ad. There are two vicious but subtle aspects to this kind of attach ads. First, not that the ad does not address the problem of white men working along side of blacks. It only refers to wives and daughter. This interracial sex innuendo played on and increased the fear of whites that Blacks would commonly rape white women. The second nasty aspect of the ad is the specific attack on the opponent. Instead of saying that he favored desegregation, the phrase “mingling of the races” was used which implied that Graham was in favor of biracial intermarriage and children—again another sex innuendo. When integration of the workforce finally occurred in the South, there was no increase in Black men sexually assaulting white women. There has been a substantial increase in racial intermarriage however as racial bigotry has diminished in America.
This widely publicized statement by Mr. Ethridge was made when he was a member of the President's Committee on Fair Employment Practices during the hearings of this Committee at Birmingham, Alabama.
This classic quotation illustrates several things. First, the degree of racism that existed in 1944 in West Virginia. Second, not how young Robert Byrd immediately leaped from the possibility of integrating our fighting forces to interracial sex. That has been typical of white racism in America—a preoccupation with race and sex. Last, Byrd who became a member of the KKK, completely changed his mind over the year and ended up supporting the things that, as a youth were worse than the demise of the nation. He matured and grew on the race issue as much of the country did and ended as a strong supporter of equality and civil rights—including affirmative action.
Bilbo was one of the worst racists who ever served in the Congress.
The Quakers were in the forefront of not only the abolition of slavery but of the integration of the races.
This quotation was one of the major reasons Carswell was rejected by the Senate.
Booth was the younger son of a very prominent Northern family of actors. His older brother was considered the greatest American actor, and the rest of the family were abolitionists and vehement Union supporters. They found young John’s views reprehensible.
The University was a fundamentalist Christian institution that had little standing amongst academic institutions, but was one of the radical Christian right’s bulwarks. The ban was also illegal. This statement took great political courage on McCain’s part. The then base of the Republican party included Evangelical Christians and Southerners who had become Republicans when the Democrats passed the Civil Rights Bill of 1964. For most of them, the worst thing about desegregation would be the “mongrelization” of the White race by interbreeding. McCain was criticizing a leading evangelical school about a very sensitive racial integration issue. Most Republicans were either silent or supportive of the “right” of the school to deny others their rights.
Hale's "Church" was a White Supremicist violent, terrorist, organization. Hale himself was jailed for attemoting to assassinate a Federal Judge. This quotation is historically interesting as it shows the strange paranoid thinking of one of the American Ultra Right Wing Organizations in America at the beginning of the 21st century.
Referring to Montgomery Alabama in 1950.
- Born: August 11, 1933
- Died: May 15, 2007
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Pastor, Educator, Evangelist, Political Commentator/activist
Jerry Lamon Falwell Sr. was an American Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy (now Liberty Christian Academy) in 1967, founded Liberty University in 1971, and co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979.
