Huey Long cytaty

Huey Pierce Long – amerykański polityk, członek Partii Demokratycznej. Był 40. gubernatorem Luizjany , a następnie senatorem . Uważany za populistę ze względu na głoszone hasło Share Our Wealth . Planował kandydować na prezydenta USA w wyborach w 1936 roku. Zginął w zamachu, zastrzelony przez

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✵ 30. Sierpień 1893 – 10. Wrzesień 1935
Huey Long Fotografia
Huey Long: 23   Cytaty 1   Polubienie

Huey Long słynne cytaty

„Boże, nie pozwól mi umrzeć, mam jeszcze tyle do zrobienia…”

God, don’t let me die. I have so much to do. (ang.)
ostatnie słowa po postrzeleniu w zamachu.

„Każdy człowiek jest królem, ale żaden nie nosi korony.”

Every man a king, but no one wears a crown. (ang.)

„Ja jestem konstytucją!”

I am the Constitution! (ang.)

Huey Long: Cytaty po angielsku

“Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.”

Written on banners used in the 1928 gubernatorial election; quoted in Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 39.

“They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.”

And they learned.
Huey Long on conservative resistance to illiteracy programs for Negroes (Williams p. 706)

“Quote me as saying that that Imperial bastard will never set foot in Louisiana, and that when I call him a sonofabitch I am not using profanity, but am referring to the circumstances of his birth.”

When the head of the Ku Klux Klan, Hiram W Evans, threatened to campaign against Long in Louisiana; quoted in "Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression," Alan Brinkley. Random House Digital: 2011.

“We swapped the tyrant 3,000 miles away for a handful of financial slaveowning overlords who make the tyrant of Great Britain seem mild.”

1933 Congressional Record, 72d Cong, 2d sess., Vol. 76; quoted in Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 55.

“When the United States gets fascism, it will call it anti-fascism.”

Originally reported by Robert Cantrell. But years later Cantrell told Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. that that was his own summary of his conversation with Long, not Long's exact words. See They Never Said It by Paul F. Boller and John H. George (1990) https://books.google.com/books?id=6zfnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA94&dq=when+fascism+comes+to+america,+it+will+be+called+anti-fascism&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo0sSQ0_TRAhWmwVQKHQ85C9M4KBDoAQguMAQ#v=onepage&q=when%20fascism%20comes%20to%20america%2C%20it%20will%20be%20called%20anti-fascism&f=false.
Misattributed
Wariant: When the United States gets fascism, it will call it 100 percent Americanism.

“I wonder why he shot me.”

Said on September 8, 1935 on his way to the hospital following being shot outside the State Capitol; quoted in Harry T. Williams, Huey Long (Vingtage Books/Random House, 1969), p. 866.