Woodrow Wilson Quotes
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
Wilson, Woodrow. "Address at Independence Hall." 4 July 1914. The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: The New Democracy, edited by Ray Stannard Baker and William E. Dodd, vol. 1, Harper & Brothers, 1926, p. 142.
Tilden won the popular vote but was one vote short of the number he needed in the electoral college so the election was thrown into the House of Representatives. The Southern Democrats made a craven deal with the Republicans, whereby they would abandon Tilden and Vote for Rutherford Hayes, and Hays and the Republican Majority in Congress would remove all Federal Troops from Southern States. The Federal Troops were the only force that protected Black rights won after the Civil War, and the South wanted to disenfranchise the Blacks. Hays became president and kept his part of the immoral bargain. With the exception of this act that put the nail in the coffin of civil rights in America and sold out the Blacks for another 80 years. (Without Federal Troops, the KKK was the dominant force in the South.) Rutherford was a good President. But race was at the heart of this disputed and unfortunate election.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the 34th governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. As President, Wilson led the United States into World War I in 1917. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his progressive stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism. Scholars have generally ranked Wilson in the upper tier of U.S presidents, although he has been criticized for supporting racial segregation and white supremacy.
