American - Politician | August 25, 1919 - September 13, 1998
I am having nothing to do with this so-called civil rights bill. The liberal left-wingers have passed it. Now let them employ some pinknik social engineers in Washington, D.C., to figure out what to do with it.
George Wallace
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When I first ran for governor... I had to stand up for segregation or be defeated, but I never insulted black people by calling them inferior.
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If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.
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It's a sad day in this country when you can't talk about law and order unless they want to call you a racist.
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Blacks gave me a standing ovation when they put the cap and gown on me, and that was the proudest I've ever been.
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It's good that segregation is over.
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It's what the people wanted at the time, but the country could not be half-segregated and half-integrated, just as it could not be half-slave and half-free back in the 1800s.
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Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us, and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South.
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I love black people, I love white people, I love yellow people.
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After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
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I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.
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I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.
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