STROM THURMOND QUOTES

“Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.”

“Segregation is not discrimination. It is separation.”

“States’ rights is not only justifiable, but necessary.”

“We must keep the bloodlines pure in order to maintain our racial integrity.”

“There’s not enough troops in the army to force the Southerners to break down segregation and admit the Nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes.”

“I don’t see anything wrong with a specialist, one of our watermelon-eating darkies, or any other Negroes, for that matter, being buried in the cemetery of his own race.”

“I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there’s not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.”

“We don’t advocate violence, but we do say sometimes violence is justifiable and that, in the highest tradition of our ancestors, violence is sometimes necessary.”

“We have enough trouble with the Mexicans. We don’t need any more Africans.” “The Negroes are not the equal of the white man. Slavery has reared them in an inferior status, and my own belief is, if the Negro is not satisfied in America, he has no one to blame but himself.”

“Some of my best friends are black, but I wouldn’t want my daughter to marry one.”

“We want to take this country back for our people and cut out the foreigners.”

“Some Negroes will not vote for a white man.” QUOTES FOR SHOWER

“I don’t see any reason in the world why an exhibition of watermelons would hurt anybody.”

“I don’t think that a society that exists in America today ought to try to integrate the races.

“I’m not concerned about preserving race. I’m concerned about preserving the freedom of individuals.”

“I just thought that all the races ought to be separated. It’s practically impossible for white and black students to study the same subjects.”

“There’s enough evidence to indicate that there are Jews involved in it.”

“There will always be racial discord as long as we have people of different races.”

“I’m not capable of changing my mind. I do not change. I’m too old for that.”

“Segregation is not against the Constitution.”

“I don’t see how in the world we can expect the Seventh Cavalry to stand up in Louisiana and keep the KKK from burning a cross.”

“The white race is the superior race, it’s as simple as that.”

“We believe in a society that is racially pure, not one that is racially mixed.”