Quotes about Segregationists

Tauku Lee

Roosevelt’s New Deal would have been impossible without the support of the Southern segregationists.

At that time, all the racist segregationists of the South were Democrats, unlike in the latter part of the 20th century where, after the Democratic President Lyndon Johnson, pushed through the Civil Rights Act, the segregationists accepted an invitation to switch to the Republican Party. In the 1930s, FDR’s Congressional majority depended on these segregationists. This is why, even though the New Deal liberalized most of American life, FDR did very little about racial equality and Civil Rights. In the 21st century, Republican Administrations could not do much about the remaining equality and civil rights issues. The racists of America, although far fewer in number, voted for the Republicans and were an important part of their base, just as they had been for FDR during the New Deal.

Kamala Harris

If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.

Martin Luther King Jr.

[T]he agents are white Southerners who have been influenced by the mores of the community. To maintain their status, they have to be friendly with the local police and people who have been promoting segregation.

Criticizing the Southern FBI agents for not enforcing Civil Rights Laws and protecting Blacks:

James Meredith

I chose as my target the University of Mississippi, which in 1960 was the holiest temple of white supremacy in America, next to the U.S. Capitol and the White House, both of which were under the control of segregationists and their collaborators.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not be haunted as it is by a deep sense of guilt for what it has done to the Negro - guilt for patronizing him, degrading him, brutalizing him, depersonalizing him, thingifying him; guilt for lying to itself. This is the source of the schizophrenia that the South will suffer until it goes through its crisis of conscience.

Ira Katznelson

The New Deal ultimately undermined Jim Crow’s prospects. The very legislation embraced by Southern segregationists created at first mere chinks, then whole openings for social change that were grasped by an incipient, soon powerful, movement for equal rights for Blacks.

Ann Coulter

Liberals say this over and over and over again to hide the actual history, which is why I go through the specifics on the big segregationists in the United States Senate, the ones who signed the Southern Manifesto and the ones who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. There's a panoply of issues to consider. The first time they objected to the Federal government doing something was when it came to civil rights legislation. This is in stark contrast to the very few Republicans who voted against the '64 Civil Rights Act.

Bayard Rustin

The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.

Edwin A. Walker

Integration is a plot of the Anti-Christ.

This quotation illustrates not only the virulent racism of some people of the era, but General Walker had been the commander of the Federal Troops that President Eisenhower had to depend upon in the Little Rock desegregation law enforcement. Radical segregationists held key positions at the time in the military and FBI. When it came to segregation, many of the Federal officials sworn to uphold the law, thought desegregation wrong and positively evil as Walker did, and opposed or undermined the law.

Segregationists Quotes