David Duke Quotes
This [EURO] was never a hate group, the European American Unity and Rights Organization was an organization in its charter is dedicated to true civil rights and stopping discrimination against people, that the best qualified people should be engaged and that every people have the right to preserve their heritage, their freedom and their values.
Duke, David. Interview by Alan Colmes. The Alan Colmes Show, Fox News Radio, 30 Dec. 2014.
Before the civil rights act was passed, most labor unions will racist and discriminated against black workers. The United Auto Workers union was an exception and Reuther was a strong advocate of desegregation and equal rights.
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.
Grady, representing what he called the New South pole kindly of Blacks in the North (See Quotation 643652), but gave his highly racist views to his Southern brethren—see Quotation 643649. He overtly in the North advocated liberty and the right to vote for Blacks (more than most Southerners at the time, but wanted the Federal role limited so that the enforcement of Black liberty and the voting franchise to be left to the States. And that is what occurred for the next half century. However, the state governments not only did not provide liberty and the voting franchise, the Southern States passed legislation and opted policies allowing KKK and other terror and intimidation so that Blacks would not exercise their rights to vote and be free. It is had to tell whether he was naive enough to believe that the Souther States would do what he claimed in the North or whether he not only realized what was likely to happen with the states in charge, but presented a moderate picture deliberately to keep the Federal government from interfering with the prerogative of the states to discriminate against Blacks. His racist views in his Southern speeches (for example, see quotation 643649) lead many to believe the latter view.
David Ernest Duke is an American neo-Nazi, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, far-right politician, convicted felon, and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From 1989 to 1992, he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. His publications and politics are largely devoted to promoting conspiracy theories about Jews, such as Holocaust denial and Jewish control of academia, the press, and the financial system. The Anti-Defamation League has described Duke as "perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite".
