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We of the South have never recognized the right of the negro to govern white men, and we never will. We have never believed him to be the equal of the white man, and we will not submit to his gratifying his lust on our wives and daughters without lynching him. I would to God the last one of them was in Africa and that none of them had ever been brought to our shores.

— Benjamin Tillman

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We deny, without regard to color, that 'all men are created equal'; it is not true now, and was not true when Jefferson wrote it.

The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers in the South before they learn their place again.

We reorganized the Democratic Party with one plank and only one plank, namely, that this is a white man's country and the white men must govern it.

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We made up our minds that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution were themselves null and void.

As governor of South Carolina, I proclaimed that, although I had taken the oath of office to support the law and enforce it, I would lead a mob to lynch any man, black or white, who ravished a woman, black or white.

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