John McCain Quotes
This ban on interracial dating is stupid, it’s idiotic, and it is incredibly cruel.
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.
John McCain, U. S. Senator (Republican, AZ), Republican Presidential Nominee, Comment on Bob Jones University policy against interracial dating, 2000
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Virginia never did recognize interracial marriage in its own. A Supreme Court ruling invalidated their law.
She was one of the first prominent white southerners to denounce racial segregation.
[This was the first Abolition appeal written by a Black Man. It was published in Boston and despite the fact that it was very critical of whites, was very popular going through two more printings within the next two years.]
Billy Sunday was the most famous preacher of the day. Unlike the vast majority of white preachers, he not only preached to black audiences but exuded an atmosphere of friendliness and comfort around Blacks that amazed most. Most Black leaders thought Sunday was very good for race relations, but there were some clergy like Grimke who criticized him. Sunday was castigated by many racist whites for preaching to Blacks, but he did not go as far as to condemn or preach against racism and the discrimination of the day and he would not preach to an integrated audience. Grimke, in contrast, preached to an integrated congregation and was one of the few white clergy who did in the South. (Washington DC was then a southern, segregated city.) See {585415} for another critique of Sunday.
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.
Senator Glen Taylor was arrested on May 1, 1948, in Birmingham, Alabama by police commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, for attempting to use a door reserved for African Americans, rather than the whites-only door, while attempting to attend a meeting of the Southern Negro Youth Congress. He was subsequently convicted of disorderly conduct. It is hard to believe that such a thing happened in America but it did. ER was one of the few Democrats to condemn such behavior. She took a great deal of criticism from the Southern Democrats for this column. They claimed she called White Southerners “Stupid.”
Bilbo was one of the worst racists who ever served in the Congress.
He served a jail sentence in Britain for inciting race hatred. This statement was made in response to the accusation that he was an extremist.
John Sidney McCain III was an American politician, statesman and United States Navy officer who served as a United States Senator for Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was the Republican nominee for president of the United States in the 2008 election, which he lost to Barack Obama.
