Leadership Renewal Quotes
The South at the time had a virtual caste system with a few families in each area controlling and leading. Many Unionists from the argued that the lower and middle class whites had to be given more power and education about their rights. Of course the controlling families had a strong vested interest to see that Reconstruction failed and the “Yankees” were hated. Anti-Negro racism was just a part of the motivation. Maintaining the elite families power of the pre-war political culture was also critical. The Northern Reconstuctionists were therefore twice dangerous.
Commenting on the fact that China was eliminating it's Constitutional requirement that government leadership had to change every 10 years.
He made this statement to his party colleagues and they pleaded with him not to issue it as a public statement and he agreed.
