Benjamin Tillman: Quotes about men

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Benjamin Tillman: 14 quotes 3 likes

“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.”

Benjamin Tillman

Speech to the United States Senate http://www.charlesmphipps.net/the-real-lynching-party/.

Men , Daughters

“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.”

Benjamin Tillman

As quoted in Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian (1967), by Francis Butler Simkins. Louisiana State University Press. OCLC 1877696, p. 144.

Men , Color

“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.”

Benjamin Tillman

Regarding the Democratic Party's goals (1909), as quoted in Voices of Civil War America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life https://books.google.com/books?id=1mwy-XB6bs8C&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=%22We+reorganized+the+Democratic+Party+with+one+plank+and+only+one+plank%22&source=bl&ots=z38s4iS5Oi&sig=-bHC9bf27SsAB3u_mTeTVENP1vs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAmoVChMI28L2gZqPxwIVgTI-Ch1lWgai#v=onepage&q=%22We%20reorganized%20the%20Democratic%20Party%20with%20one%20plank%20and%20only%20one%20plank%22&f=false, by Lawrence Kreiser and Ray B. Browne, p. 27.
1900s, 1909

Men , Country