Quotes tagged ‘Ku Klux Klan’

“Go back to the beginning, Thomas Jefferson wrote what many believed to be the most important civil document in human history, but he was a slaveholder. We’ve never lived up to our American ideals, Jefferson himself didn’t. But what he wrote has pulled us towards justice for more than two centuries a…”

— Joe Biden, rev.com

“How far is it from Trump saying this is an invasion to the shooter in El Paso declaring quote, 'this attack as a response to Hispanic invasion of Texas'. How far apart are those comments? How far is it from white supremacists in Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville? Trump’s very fine people chanting 'you wi…”

— Joe Biden, rev.com

“I don’t think it’s that far at all. It is both clear language and in code, this president has fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation. His low energy, vacant eyed mouthing the words written for him condemning white supremacists this week I don’t believe fooled anyone at home or abroad. H…”

— Joe Biden, rev.com

“After Trump tweeted his go back [inaudible], the leading Nazi website, Neo Nazi website said, 'this is the kind of nationalism we elected him for'. He knows it. He saw it, and on 8chan, a haven for radicalism on the internet where a declaration of hate linked to El Paso shooter was posted. One comme…”

— Joe Biden, rev.com

“When he said after Charlottesville there were, and I quote, 'very fine people on both sides', I said, then it gave license and safe harbor to white supremacists and Neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. These words not only stunned America, but they stunned the world and in doing so, he has signed a moral…”

— Joe Biden, rev.com

“Charlottesville was no isolated incident. When Trump announced he was running for president, he called Mexicans rapists. Days before the midterm, he formatted fears of a caravan heading to United States creating hysteria when he said, 'Look, look, some marching up. This is an invasion, an invasion.'…”

— Joe Biden, rev.com

“When I was a baby Momma named me after the great civil war hero general Nathan Bedford Forrest. She said we were related to him in some way what he did was: He started up this club called the Ku Klux Klan they'd all dress up in their robes and their bed sheets and act like a bunch of ghosts and spoo…”

— Winston Groom, Charlie Peters, Eric Roth, Ernest Thompson, Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, amazon.com

“The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.”

— Thurgood Marshall, biography.com