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All whites are created equal with certain rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of dead niggers.

— James Eastland Misattributed

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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.

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