...In
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth...
~ Lynyrd Skynyrd -
Alabama
Governor George Wallace in 1967 blocks a deputy
Source(s): Voices of Civil Rights
"The History: Photo Gallery".
Library of Congress U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, Prints and Photographs Division (174A)
Digital ID # ppmsca 04294 Warren K. Leffler, photographer.( photo on right )
Governor George C. Wallace Quotes
"It is very appropriate that from this
cradle of the Confederacy, this very heart of the great Anglo-Saxon Southland,
that today we sound the drum for freedom as have our generations of forebears
before us time and again down through history. Let us rise to the call for
freedom-loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that
clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest people that have
ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before
the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow,
segregation forever."
~ 1963 (
from his inaugural speech, first term as governor )
"A racist is one who despises someone
because of his color, and an
~ 1964 ( from "U.S. News & World Report" )
"...Yes, they've looked down their nose
at you and me a long time. They've called us rednecks -- the Republicans and
the Democrats. Well, we're going to show, there sure are a lot of rednecks in
this country."
1968 ( while running as a third-party candidate )
Southern
man
better keep your head
Don't forget
what your good book said
Southern change
gonna come at last...
Neil Young - Southern Man After The Goldrush ©1970
"And whether or not you've agreed with
me at everything that I used to do, and agreed to -- I know that you do not --
I, too, see the mistakes that all of us made in years past."
1982 (
addressing black congregation, beginning his steps toward seeking forgiveness )
"I did stand, with a majority of the
white people, for the separation of the schools. But that was wrong, and that
will never come back again."
1982 (
to a
"I don't expect people to
forget my brash words or deeds. But I ask that they try to remember the actions
that I took that were designed to help them."
Late
'80s ( to Stephan Lesher )
Source: The American Experience
"George Wallace: Settin the
Woods on Fire" / Wallace Quotes.