The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of tw…

- Strom Thurmond

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no dou…

- Strom Thurmond

Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny, and mat…

- Strom Thurmond

I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and deve…

- Strom Thurmond

All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.

- Strom Thurmond

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

- Strom Thurmond

This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the G…

- Strom Thurmond

Martin Luther King demeans his race and retards the advancement of his people.

- Strom Thurmond

An American should be able choose to work in a place where he is with his kind of people and not find that at the counters, desk or benches they will…

- Strom Thurmond