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" As I have said before, that Federal Penal Code could never have been enacted into law if we had had a responsible press who was willing to tell the American people the truth about what it actually provides. Nor would we have had a bill had it not been for the United States Supreme Court. "

George Wallace

Law

Truth

People

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" It's good that segregation is over. "

" My vehemence was against the federal courts. I never said a word against black people in my heart since I ran for governor. "

" My one wish before I die is to talk to Bremer. I want to find out who he did it for. He did it for somebody else. "

" I love black people, I love white people, I love yellow people. "

" Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us, and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. "

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Rise

Blood

" The court today, just as in 1776, is deaf to the voices of the people and their repeated entreaties: they have become arrogant, contemptuous, highhanded, and literal despots. "

" We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fantasy telling us we are bigots, racists and hate-mongers. "

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" I did nothing worse than Lyndon Johnson. He was for segregation when he thought he had to be. I was for segregation, and I was wrong. The media has rehabilitated Johnson; why won't it rehabilitate me? "

George Wallace

Thought

Segregation

" When I first ran for governor... I had to stand up for segregation or be defeated, but I never insulted black people by calling them inferior. "

" I am having nothing to do with this so-called civil rights bill. The liberal left-wingers have passed it. Now let them employ some pinknik social engineers in Washington, D.C., to figure out what to do with it. "

" The average citizen in this county has more intelligence and sense in his little finger than the editor of 'The New York Times' has in his whole head. "

" I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever! "

" I don't support white supremacy. I'm the one who made them take 'white supremacy' off the roster that was the symbol of the Democratic Party in this state. "

" I am not about to be a party to anything having to do with the law that is going to destroy individual freedom and liberty in this country. "

" I don't expect people to forget my brash words or deeds. But I ask that they try to remember the actions that I took that were designed to help them. "

" Tell the people... please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I'm suffering a lot, but I love them. "