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James Eastland

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“I have no prejudice in my heart, but the white race is the superior race and the Negro race an inferior race and the races must be kept separate by law.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Johnson, John Harold (1944). Negro Digest. Johnson Publishing Company. p. 72
“When they return to take over, they desire more than anything else to see the integrity of the social institutions of the South unimpaired. They desire to see white supremacy maintained. Above all things, they do not desire to see the election laws of the South or the powers of the States in defining the qualifications of electors tampered with. Those boys are fighting to maintain the rights of the States. Those boys are fighting to maintain white supremacy and the control of our election machinery.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Congressional Records (January 31, 1944)
“This decision reveals an alarming tendency to destroy the sovereignty of the states. Our supreme court is usurping the legislative function, and Congress may yet prove the last citadel of constitutional government.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dixie Members Of Congress Bitterly Hit Court Ruling". The Greenville News. United Press. April 4, 1944. p. 4; ‘Congressmen From South Hit Negro Vote Rule’; ; April 4, 1944, p. 2
“Who has won this war? Why should the white soldier, the warrior who has returned home after having achieved the greatest victory in history be penalized for political reasons?”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Negro soldier was an utter and dismal failure in combat in Europe. When I make that statement, it is not from prejudice. I am not prejudiced against the Negro.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Europe, Negro soldiers are used principally as service troops behind the lines, and I state now, on the authority of many American officers, that they were lazy; that they would not work; that it was a mistake to send them to Europe, and furthermore, that they should be returned from Europe and sent to the Pacific, where there are races of color.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Negro soldiers would go to farmhouses and holler "Boche! Bache!" as if they were looking for Germans, call the men of the families out into the yards, and hold guns on them while they went in and criminally assaulted the women members of the family.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I state that the conduct of the Negro soldier in Normandy, as well as all over Europe, was disgraceful and that Negro soldiers have disgraced the flag of their country. They constitute roughly one-twelfth of the Ameri-can Army, yet they are guilty of more than half the crime in the Army.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There will be no FEPC when the soldier gets back home, and I make that statement as one who has visited many of our armies and talked to literally hundreds of American soldiers.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I repeat that when communism enters a country, it makes the classes class-conscious. It makes races race-conscious, in order to weaken the internal structure of the country and pave the way for communism.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are dealing with an inferior people, and yet we are discriminating against the white soldier, in favor of the inferior person, and under this measure, we are giving the inferior person a preference in securing employment.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After Liberia was founded the white man ruled it for a period of 25 to 30 years. It was doing well under white control. But 80 years after the white man withdrew, as the League of Nations found, it had not become even semi-civilized. Yet, Mr. President, we talk about racial equality. I assert that the Negro race is an inferior race. The doctrine of white supremacy is one which, if adhered to, will save America.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Congressional Records (June 29, 1945)
“Let me say frankly that in my judgment the CIO and the PAC are Communist organizations. I know that there are millions of good loyal Americans who belong to the CIO; but in my judgment, the leadership of that organization is definitely Communistic.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Congressional Record (1946)
“The people of the South are expected to remain docile while their civilization and culture are destroyed, while their segregation statutes are repealed by Federal action, and while the white race is destroyed under the false guise of another civil-rights bill. We are expected to remain docile while the pure blood of the South is mongrelized by the barter of our heritage by northern politicians in order to secure political favors from Red mongrels in the slums of the cities of the East and West.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This much is certain. If the present Democratic leadership is right, then Calhoun and Jefferson Davis were wrong. If the present Democratic leadership is right, then Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner were right, and Lee, Forrest, and Wade Hampton were wrong. If the President’s civil-rights program is right, then reconstruction was right. If this program is right, the carpetbaggers were right.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Organized mongrel minorities control the government. I am going to fight it to the last ditch. They are not going to Harlemize the country.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Extracts from his speech to the Senate against the FEPC. February 9, 1948
“The Senator from New Hampshire certainly does not believe that the Governor of New York would clean Communists out of the Government service, when New York, for all practical purposes, is a Communist State.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Senator Styles Bridges (R-NH), 1948
“That is a very strong statement, Mr. President: “All is race; there is no other truth.” These are known to have been Disraeli's views. Disraeli would have been horrified at a program designed to mongrelize the Anglo-Saxon race which he so greatly admired.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The white people of the South do not have race prejudice. They have race consciousness, and they are proud to possess this awareness of the significance of race. Had they not possessed it, the South would have been mongrelized and southern civilization destroyed long ago.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Simkin, John (September 1997). "James Eastland
“On May 17, 1954, the Constitution of the United States was destroyed because of the Supreme Court’s decision. You are not obliged to obey the decisions of any court which are plainly fraudulent sociological considerations.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954–1965, by Juan Williams, Viking Penguin, January 1, 1987, ISBN 978-0-670-81412-1, p. 38.
“Today, however, a trend away from traditional standards of propriety begins to be in evidence. Our Court has been indoctrinated and brainwashed by left-wing pressure groups. The Court is out of step with the American people. We see Justices of the Supreme Court banqueted and honored by left-wing Communist-front organizations militantly interested in legislation on which the Supreme Court must pass.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Congressional Record, 1956
“The Anglo-Saxon people have held steadfast to the belief that resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am sure you are not going to permit the NAACP to control your state.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1997), page 154
“As I said, we have more Nigra professional men, more businessmen, we have substantial Nigra cotton planters. In fact, they have made more progress in the south than in the north. The master-servant relationship today is largely a northern product.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: James Eastland interviewed by Mike Wallace on The Mike Wallace Interview (July 24, 1957)
“I don’t like you — or your kind.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Johnson: Jim, we've got three kids missing down there. What can I do about it? Eastland: Well, I don't know. I don't believe there's ... I don't believe there's three missing. Johnson: We've got their parents down here. Eastland: I believe it's a publicity stunt ...”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: WhiteHouseTapes.org :: The secret White House tapes and recordings of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower". Archived from the original on 2009-05-13.
“I would not be surprised if Martin Luther King and these agitators next desecrate the graves of Confederate soldiers and drag their remains through the streets in an effort to garner headlines. And what kind of person is participating in this march? Beatniks, frauds, and persons wanted to answer for crimes in other States.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To the Senate about the Grenada, Mississippi civil rights movement, after activists put American flags on the place where a Confederate memorial stood. June 16, 1966
“You've inserted the thin end of the wedge by allowing stinking niggers into such a fine hotel.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Rhodesia, around 1968, after discovering the Ambassador Hotel of Salisbury admitted Black patrons
“Rhodesia has an ingredient which is sadly lacking in America. This is racial harmony.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After traveling in Rhodesia, in 1969. Quoted in the Clarion-Ledger.
“Mr. President, how does that compare with what happened during four years under German occupation? During four years while the German army was there, there were two cases of criminal assault, and in each case, the man guilty was apprehended and shot the very day the assault happened, while in the cases of American culprits, files would have to come back to Washington, the opposition of the Organization for the Advancement of Colored People would have to be faced, a fight against the infliction of the penalty would be made by the Communist Party, this group and that group, so that it would take seven or eight months before any sentence was carried out, and by that time the entire effect of the punishment would be lost.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The southern institution of racial segregation or racial separation was the correct, self-evident truth which arose from the chaos and confusion of the reconstruction period. Separation promotes racial harmony. It permits each race to follow its own pursuits, and its own civilization. Segregation is not discrimination. Segregation is not a badge of racial inferiority, and that it is not is recognized by both races in the Southern States. In fact, segregation is desired and supported by the vast majority of the members of both races in the South, who dwell side by side under harmonious conditions. ... Let me make this clear, Mr. President: There is no racial hatred in the South. The Negro race is not an oppressed race. ... Mr. President, it is the law of nature, it is the law of God, that every race has both the right and the duty to perpetuate itself. All free men have the right to associate exclusively with members of their own race, free from governmental interference, if they so desire. Free men have the right to send their children to schools of their own choosing, free from governmental interference and to build up their own culture, free from governmental interference. These rights are inherent in the Constitution of the United States and in the American system of government, both state and national, to promote and protect this right.”
James Eastland (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source