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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

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Speech following Smith v. Allright, which outlawed white primaries as used in Mississippi

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You've inserted the thin end of the wedge by allowing stinking niggers into such a fine hotel.

Our Court has been indoctrinated and brainwashed by left-wing pressure groups. The Court is out of step with the American people.

I am sure you are not going to permit the NAACP to control your state.

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I assert that the Negro race is an inferior race. The doctrine of white supremacy is one which, if adhered to, will save America.

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.

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