In every stage of the [Montgomery] bus boycott we have been oppressed and degraded because of black, slimy, juicy, unbearably stinking niggers. … African flesh-eaters. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to abolish the Negro race, proper methods should be used. Among these are guns, bows and arrows, slingshots and knives. … All whites are created equal with certain rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of dead niggers.
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At a February 10, 1956 rally of the White Citizens' Council in the Montgomery Agricultural Coliseum, as quoted in Robert Caro’s Master of the Senate. However, it actually came from the handbill "Declaration of Segregation" handed out during the meeting.