Huey Long: Living

Huey Long was American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United States Senator. Explore interesting quotes on living.
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“Now, just a word about the poor Negroes … They're here. They've got to be cared for … The poor Negroes have got to live, too.”

Huey Long

Huey Long as Governor (Williams p. 704)

“I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.”

Huey Long

Huey Long (Williams p. 761)

Country

“Mr. President, I am not undertaking to answer the charge that I am ignorant. It is true. I am an ignorant man. I have had no college education. I have not even had a high school education. But the things that takes me far in politics is that I do not have to color what comes into my mind and into my heart. I say it unvarnished. I say it without veneer. I have not the learning to do otherwise, and therefore my ignorance is often not detected.

I know the hearts of the People because I have not colored my own. I know when I am right in my own conscience. I do not talk one way in the cloakroom and another way out here. I do not talk one way back there in the hills of Louisiana and another way here in the Senate.

I have one language. Ignorant as it is, it is the universal language within the sphere in which I operate. Its simplicity gains pardon for my lack of letters and education.

Nonetheless my voice will be the same as it has been. Patronage will not change it. Fear will not change it. Persecution will not change it. It cannot be changed while people suffer. The only way it can be changed is to make the lives of these people decent and respectable. No one will ever hear political opposition out of me when that is done.”

Huey Long

Huey Long, U.S. Senate floor speech, March 5, 1935

People , Education , Fear , School

“Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.”

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Huey Long on his Negro policy as President (Williams p. 704)

Education