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1919–1998 United States
George Corley Wallace, Jr. (25 August 1919 – 13 September 1998) was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Alabama for four terms. A member of the Democratic Party, he is remembered for his staunch segregationist and populist views.
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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.
As your governor, I shall resist any illegal federal court order, even to the point of standing at the schoolhouse door in person, if necessary.
Gubernatorial campaign promise (1962)
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
I stand here today, as Governor of this sovereign state, and refuse to willingly submit to illegal usurpation of power by the Central Government.
I was wrong. Those days are over, and they ought to be over.
Speech (1979)
If I can't forgive him, the Lord won’t forgive me.
I was out-niggered by John Patterson. And I'll tell you here and now, I will never be out-niggered again.
To Seymore Trammell (1958)
You’ve got some folks out here who know a lot of four letter words. But there are two four-letter words they don’t know. W-O-R-K and S-O-A-P, you don’t know those two letter words I’ll tell you that much.
I want to tell the good people of this state as a judge of the 3rd Judicial Circuit, if I didn’t have what it took to treat a man fair regardless of his color, then I don’t have what it takes to be the governor of your great state.
Being governor don't mean a thing anymore in this country. We're nothing. Just high-paid ornaments is all. I'm thinking of running for president myself.
I have learned what suffering means. In a way that was impossible, I think I can understand something of the pain black people have come to endure. I know I contributed to that pain, and I can only ask your forgiveness.
Address to the Montgomery Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (1979)
We shall continue to maintain segregation in Alabama completely and absolutely without violence or ill-will. … I advocate hatred of no man, because hate will only compound the problems facing the South. … We ask for patience and tolerance and make an earnest request that we be allowed to handle state and local affairs without outside interference.
I tried to talk about good roads and good schools and all these things that have been part of my career, and nobody listened. And then I began talking about niggers, and they stomped the floor.
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