Harold Hitz Burton Quotes
The right to be free from unreasonable discriminations belongs … to each particular person. Where a dining car is available to passengers holding tickets entitling them to use it, each such passenger is equally entitled to its facilities.
Harold Hitz Burton, 1888-1964, Mayor of Cleveland, OH (Democrat), U. S. Senator (Democrat, OH), U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Henderson v. United States, June 5, 1950
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Commenting on allowing gays to serve in the military:
This was the first named Civil Rights Act passed in the United States. It was passed over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, a Southerner, who tried to thwart Congress’s efforts at Reconstruction.
The call had been taped by Wead without Bush’s knowledge when Bush was first running for the Presidency. His radical right supporters among the Christian fundamentalists believed that Bush was opposed to gay lifestyles.
Without realizing it Abbott conceded some of the reasons that some people opposed women serving in the military. His entire argument hangs on the slender thread that it is not the function of a woman which was a view held by some people with particular religious and philosophical views. When that group was clearly shown to be a minority of Americans, women entered military service and joined police forces across the country.
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He was the first FHA administrator to make statements saying that non-discriminatory housing services should be available to the American people. He was not able to change the agency’s equal opportunity performance because the Southern states had laws allowing and protecting legal segregation especially in housing. The Southern staff interpreted his position to be sure that both blacks and whites had access to FHA services, but they used the “separate but equal” doctrine: Provide services to both races but always in segregated housing projects. This was typical of the kinds of problems that motivated the Civil Rights Acts offered by President Kennedy in 1963 and passed by President Johnson in 1964 See {637271} for a similar Mason statement.
This is one of the earliest public positions taken against the legal prohibition on interracial marriage. On this issue, even the vast majority of the Northerners were against her. The “commonwealth” to which she refers, is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Note that freedom of choice then meant the freedom to choose of marriage partners without regard to race. A century later, it became the freedom to choose the medical procedures that a woman would be subjected to.
In the 1930s African Americans who traveled were subject to countless humiliations whenever the sought hotels, rooming houses, restaurants and other accommodations. Gas stations would not allow them to use bathrooms and they were reduced to using open fields. Traveling and vacationing was, for Blacks, humiliating. Wikipedia: “Green reviewed hotels and restaurants that did business with African Americans during the time of Jim Crow laws and racial segregation in the United States. He printed 15,000 copies each year. In the 1930s, Green began his work by compiling data on stores in the New York area that accepted black travelers, and published his first guide in 1936. Similar guides had been published for Jewish travelers, who sometimes faced discrimination. Green's guide was so popular that he immediately began to expand its coverage the next year to other US destinations, adding hotel and restaurants as well.”
In the 1930s African Americans who traveled were subject to countless humiliations whenever the sought hotels, rooming houses, restaurants and other accommodations. Gas stations would not allow them to use bathrooms and they were reduced to using open fields. Traveling and vacationing was, for Blacks, humiliating. Wikipedia: “Green reviewed hotels and restaurants that did business with African Americans during the time of Jim Crow laws and racial segregation in the United States. He printed 15,000 copies each year. In the 1930s, Green began his work by compiling data on stores in the New York area that accepted black travelers, and published his first guide in 1936. Similar guides had been published for Jewish travelers, who sometimes faced discrimination. Green's guide was so popular that he immediately began to expand its coverage the next year to other US destinations, adding hotel and restaurants as well.”
Campaigning for the U. S. Senate in Alabama in 1948. This was a remarkably courageous statement to make in 1948 when racism and segregation was rampant in the South. Potentially losing the election was a minor risk compared to the very real threat of the KKK and other racists physically assaulting her or killing her. Both were very common as lynching to intimidate opponents of segregation was a common occurrence.
Harold Hitz Burton was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 45th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a U.S. Senator from Ohio, and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
