The Ku Klux Klan branded Johnson the most hated man in America wooden crosses were burned on his lawn. Judge Frank Johnson, ... was denounced as a judicial activist and threatened with impeachment. He had the courage to expand freedom in America. Judge Roberts, I hope that you agree America must never return to those days of discrimination and limitations on our freedom.
Quotes about klux (13 Quotes)
This is like protecting the Ku Klux Klan, ... You don't particularly care for the people you're protecting, but it's your duty to do so.
We didn't have any Ku Klux Klan in Washington, D.C. There was no White Citizens Council. I mean, there was just this vast separation that you didn't have any kind of contact with until you went beyond the boundaries of your community.
Try to imagine a Shakespeare beset by fundamentalism, or a Goethe trying to work with the Ku Klux Klan roaring under his door
The Klan, like everyone else, can pick up garbage on the highway, ... They can't be penalized because they discriminate. Lots of groups discriminate. The Boy Scouts discriminate against gays. But when and if they Ku Klux Klan engage in criminal conduct or violence, the state should go after them.
I ran into Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things made me decide not to build on the Alabama coast, so we came back to Memphis.
It was just a matter of survival... of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl and hearing the Ku Klux Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.
Let me give you an example, ... I worked at a television station in Minneapolis back in the 1980s and part of the 1990s. During our first years there, our two boys got in fights at school. You know what caused it Some of the kids assumed that if we were from the South, we were members of the (Ku Klux) Klan.
There is a new Ku Klux Klan out there called Killer Crack and Cocaine, and the new lynch mob is sweeping all through the Black neighborhood.
I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.
The Janjaweed are like a grotesque mixture of the mafia and the Ku Klux Klan, ... These guys have a racist ideology that sees the Arab population as the supreme population that would like to see the subjugation of non-Arab peoples. Theyre criminal racketeers that have been supported very directly by the government to wage the war against the people of Darfur.
For the Ku Klux Klan to now attempt to engage schools is a new and scary development in Michigan. Schools are a breeding ground for racism. This has to be stomped out right away.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'