Revilo P. Oliver Quotes


This is a world in which only the strong and resolute nations survive, while the weak, especially the morally weak, who babble about brotherhood and peace, are biologically degenerate and doomed to extinction.


Citations

Revilo P. Oliver, 1908-1994, Co-founder, The John Birch Society, Quoted in White Nationalist Resource Page, www.stormfront.org

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The German catastrophic classification of people as superior and inferior did not start with the Nazis. It had been part of the German culture. What many feel makes Bismarck more cold-blooded than most Germans is that the latter were led to a hatred of the other ethnicities and would exterminate them for that reason, but Bismark had sympathy for the Poles yet advocated genocide simply on practical grounds. The analogy with the wolf shows this mentality at its worst.


This is a very important quotation. This was not the ravings of a right wing extremist. It was a normative view. This book was a best seller in Germany. This quotation illustrates the mentality of the conservative, militarist, culture that dominated Germany at the time. Racism was normative then in Germany. It was not the Nazis who introduced the concept of inferior races to Germany. Through this book and much before it, the idea was well established in aristocratic, militaristic culture. Also, note that the “inferior races” were considered a threat to civilization, not just inferior beings.


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.


Revilo P. Oliver
Revilo P. Oliver
  • Born: July 7, 1908
  • Died: August 20, 1994
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  • Profession: Author

Revilo Pendleton Oliver was an American professor of Classical philology, Spanish, and Italian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After World War II, he published in American Opinion, becoming known as a polemicist for white nationalist and right-wing causes.