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Theodore G. Bilbo

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“I am utterly powerless. The State has no troops, and if the civil authorities at Ellisville are helpless, the States are equally so. Furthermore, excitement is at such a high pitch throughout South Mississippi that any armed attempt to interfere would doubtless result in the deaths of hundreds of persons. The negro has confessed, says he is ready to die, and nobody can keep the inevitable from happening.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Governor Bilbo's speech before the mob lynching of John Hartfield in Ellisville, Mississippi, on June 26, 1919
“This is a white man's country, with a white man's civilization and any dream on the part of the Negro race to share social and political equality will be shattered in the end.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To defeat this measure, so help me God, I would be willing to speak every day of the year 1938.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a speech opposing a Senate anti-lynching bill on January 21, 1938
“When once the flat-nosed Ethiopian, like the camel, gets his proboscis under the tent, he will overthrow the established order of our Saxon civilization.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In reference to NAACP head Walter White in a speech opposing a Senate anti-lynching bill on January 21, 1938
“If you succeed in the passage of this bill, you will open the floodgates of hell in the South. Raping, mobbing, lynching, race riots, and crime will be increased a thousandfold; and upon your garments and the garments of those who are responsible for the passage of the measure will be the blood of the raped and outraged daughters of Dixie, as well as the blood of the perpetrators of these crimes that the red-blooded Anglo-Saxon white Southern men will not tolerate.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a speech opposing a Senate anti-lynching bill on January 21, 1938
“It is essential to the perpetuation of our Anglo-Saxon civilization that white supremacy be maintained, and to maintain our civilization there is only one solution, and that is either by segregation within the United States, or by deportation of the entire Negro race to its native heath, Africa.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a speech opposing a Senate anti-lynching bill on January 21, 1938
“It is the height of folly to assume that environment, discipline, education, and all other external devices can affect the blood, smooth down inequalities between individuals of the same breed, much less between different breeds, or transmute racial qualities... The Germans appreciate the importance of race values. They understand that racial improvement is the greatest asset that any country can have...They know, as few other nations have realized, that the impoverishment of race values contributes more to the impairment and destruction of a civilization than any other agency.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a May 24, 1938 speech proposing legislation to return US blacks to Africa
“It is further a plan of the almighty that the Negroes may be transferred back to the land of their forefathers.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a speech on the Senate floor in April 1939
“When this war is over and more than two million Negro soldiers, whose minds have been filled and poisoned with political and social equality stuff, return and ‘hell breaks out’ all over the country, I think I’ll get more help in settling the Negroes in Africa.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a speech to the Mississippi State legislature on March 22, 1944
“Of course, she did not understand my ultimate plan. If I can succeed eventually in resettling the great majority of Negroes in West Africa— and I propose to do it— I might entertain the proposition of crowning Eleanor queen of Greater Liberia.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In reference to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s opposition to his plan to repatriate blacks to West Africa, summer 1944
“I continuously travel the United States and give my word from close examination that the birds behind all this social race equality stuff are Jews— from that rat Winchell to the most illiterate second-hand man.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An excerpt from a letter that came from a man Bilbo described as “an old friend of mine”, June 1945
“Do Senators propose that we spend $446,000 of the people’s money for 66 Negroes, 12 Jews, a few gentiles, and two Japs, just to be ‘lollypops’ for this country, ‘sugar boys’ going around pacifying?”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In the second debate over appropriations for the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC), June 1945
“I have just heard this Sunday night’s broadcast by you, the most limicolous liar and notorious scandalizing kike radio commentator of today.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bilbo's reply to criticism from radio commentator Walter Winchell, summer 1945
“Its purpose is to plant the seeds of devilment and trouble-breeding in the days to come in the mind and heart of every American Negro ... It is the dirtiest, filthiest, lousiest, most obscene piece of writing that I have ever seen in print. I would hate to have a son or daughter of mine permitted to read it; it is so filthy and so dirty. But it comes from a Negro, and you cannot expect any better from a person of his type.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bilbo's denunciation of Richard Wright's autobiography, Black Boy, on the Senate floor in 1945
“I am ready to wage the most strenuous fight of my life to defeat the Fair Employment Practices Commission, the anti-poll tax bill, the anti-lynching bill, and the $4 billion loan to England...If you draft Negro boys into the army, give them three good meals a day, a good uniform and let them shoot craps and drink liquor around the barracks for a year, they won’t be worth a tinker’s damn thereafter.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an announcement that he would seek re-election in 1946
“I call on every red-blooded white man to use any means to keep the niggers away from the polls[;] if you don’t understand what that means you are just plain dumb. I’m calling on every red-blooded American who believes in the superiority and integrity of the white race to get out and see that no nigger votes...and the best time to do that is the night before!”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a speech to his white supporters during his successful re-election campaign in June of 1946
“No man can leave the Klan. He takes an oath not to do that. Once a Ku Klux, always a Ku Klux.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I deny that I exhorted, agitated, and made any inflammatory appeals to the passions and prejudices of the white population to foster, stimulate, inspire, create and intensify a state of acute and aggravated tension between the white and Negro races in the state of Mississippi... I want to say right here off the record that the Negroes of Mississippi have never had a better friend.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am honestly against the social intermingling of Negroes and Whites but I hold nothing personal against the Negroes as a race. They should be proud of their God-given heritage just as I am proud of mine. I believe Negroes should have the right [to indiscriminate use of the ballot], and in Mississippi too— when their main purpose is not to put me out of office and when they won't try to besmirch the reputation of my state.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The principle of segregation of the White and Negro races in the South is so well known that it requires no definition. Briefly and plainly stated, the object of this policy is to prevent the two races from meeting on terms of social equality. By established practice, each race maintains its own institutions and promotes its own social life.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are five million Jews in the United States and the majority of them are fine public citizens, but if Jews of your type don’t quit sponsoring and fraternizing with the Negro race you are going to arouse so much opposition that they will get a very strong invitation to pack up and resettle in Palestine, the homeland of the Jews, just as we propose to provide for the voluntary resettlement of the American Negro in West Africa their fatherland. Now do not pop-off and say I am in favor of sending the Jews to Palestine. What I am trying to say to you is that there are just a few of you New York ‘kikes’ that are fraternizing and socializing with the Negroes for selfish and political reasons and if you keep it up you will arouse the opposition of the better class of your race.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Leonard Golditch, executive secretary of the National Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism in 1945
“What is the real issue at stake? Why this determination on the part of the South to maintain the color line and to fight back with all her strength against the combined efforts of certain groups in our Nation, white and black, to break down segregation and to destroy Southern ideals and customs? The answer is simple. The South stands for blood, for the preservation of the blood of the white race. To preserve her blood, the white South must absolutely deny social equality to the Negro regardless of what his individual accomplishments might be. This is the premise - openly and frankly stated - upon which Southern policy is based. This position is so thoroughly justified in the minds of white Southerners that it is sometimes difficult for them to comprehend the reasoning of those who seriously dispute it.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we sit with Negroes at our tables, if we attend social functions with them as our social equals, if we disregard segregation in all other relations, is it then possible that we maintain it fixedly in the marriage of the South's Saxon sons and daughters? The answer must be "No." By the absolute denial of social equality to the Negro, the barriers between the races are firm and strong. But if the middle wall of the social partition should be broken down, then the mingling of the tides of life would surely begin. It would be a slow process, but the result would be the same. And though the process be gradual, it would be none the less irresistible and inevitable. The lower strata of the white population would probably feel the first effects, and within the foreseeable future the middle and upper classes would be invaded. Then, the Southern White race, the Southern Caucasian, would be irretrievably doomed.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source