Hiram Wesley Evans Quotes

White Power! We’re going to save the white race.

Lifting the Klan mask revealed a chaotic multitude of anti-black vigilante groups, disgruntled poor white farmers, wartime guerrilla bands, displaced Democratic politicians, illegal whiskey distillers, coercive moral reformers, bored young men, sadists, rapists, white workmen fearful of black competition, employers trying to enforce labor discipline, common thieves, neighbors with decades-old grudges, and even a few freedmen and white Republicans who allied with Democratic whites or had criminal agendas of their own. Indeed, all they had in common, besides being overwhelmingly white, southern, and Democratic, was that they called themselves, or were called, Klansmen.

It is time to reclaim this country for white people. If you want it, you’re going to have to get it the way the founding fathers got it — blood, blood, blood.

It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true - his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power.

It's the whole white-supremacist movement, no matter what they call themselves - be it Klan, Nazis, alt-right, skinheads - the basic ideology is the same. They consider themselves superior to others because of their white skin, and we should not sleep on that.

We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.

As Abraham Lincoln said, if there is to be a superior position, he would rather that superior position be assigned to the White race. That superior position must be protected by those who believe in White supremacy and they will do everything in their power to make sure that that position will always be throughout the generations.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

I hold that this government was established…for the benefit of white men and their prosperity forever, and should be administered by white men, and none others.

WHITE man’s government ... should not be scoffed at; that it is a prejudice in the country that no man has a right to disregard

We must keep this a White Man's country. Only by doing this can we be faithful to the foundations laid by our forefathers. This Republic was established by White Men. It was established for White Men. Our forefathers never intended that it should fall into the hands of an inferior race. Every effort to wrest from White Men the management of its affairs in order to transfer it to the control of blacks or any other color, or to permit them to share in its control, is an invasion of our sacred Constitutional prerogatives and a violation of divinely established laws

Many white Americans resist relinquishing the sense of entitlement skin color has given them throughout our national history.

The white man believes in equality, but apparently believes the white man is more equal than the Indian.

We're not so much anti-black as we are pro-white.

There's not a white man in this country who can say he never benefited from being white.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

All too many white Americans are horrified not with conditions of Negro life, but with the product of these conditions, the Negro himself.

Segregation is a disease of white people, not of colored people.

The central question is … whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally in which it does not predominate numerically. The sobering answer is Yes. The white community is so entitled because, for the time being, they are the more advanced race.

Invisible Empire

I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be “accepted” by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don’t wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on the planet.

We have a long, ugly history of white supremacy in this country, ranging from Jim Crow laws to keep African Americans down to the 1924 Immigration Act to keep non-Europeans out.

To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies.

One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white, they won't succeed.

There's no such thing as racial, non-white supremacy.