"The race to be most pious ultimately moves a nation to extremism, a path all of us should hope to avoid."

 

- Floyd J. McKay, November 2004

"The real responsibility for the Iraq war lay not with Bush but with...the malleable middle of the American political establishment who three years ago made a conscious moral choice to support a military action that even a three-year-old could have seen made no sense at all."

 

- Matt Taibbi, November 2006

"You don'r get rewarded in commercial broadcasting for trying to tell the truth about the institutions of power in this country."

 

- Bill Moyers, December 2004

"If one pays attention to modern politics, one realizes that most of it has to do with parading around with banners, and most of them have almost nothing to do with education, health care, highways, drinking water and jobs."

 

- John Young, May 2006

"If working class people are ever to receive their fair share of the wealth they produce for their employers, they must organize on a grand scale."

 

- Charles Sullivan, January 2006

"The last "reform" corporate America wants is a genuine crackdown on illegal immigration."

 

- Ted Rail, January 2005

"Racists seem obsessed by the idea that illegal workers - the hardest-working, poorest people in America - are somehow getting away with something, sneaking goodies that should be for Americans."

 

- Molly Ivins, March 2006

"Racists seem obsessed by the idea that illegal workers - the hardest-working, poorest people in America - are somehow getting away with something, sneaking goodies that should be for Americans."

 

- Molly Ivins, March 2006

So if I break into your home and steal your belongings and you press charges, then you are a racist. Now I get it.

^ Take it up with Molly, not me. I'm just the messenger here.:lol2:

 

"In the political realignment that resulted from the Democrats' embrace of the civil rights movement, the racist right wing migrated to the Republican Party."

 

- Marty Jezer, August 2004

^ Take it up with Molly, not me. I'm just the messenger here.:lol2:

 

"In the political realignment that resulted from the Democrats' embrace of the civil rights movement, the racist right wing migrated to the Republican Party."

 

- Marty Jezer, August 2004

 

That's absolutely not true, the democratic south has never embraced anything anout civil rights. They went to war, fought for segragation and have complied kicking and screaming. Just because it's repeated a million times does not make it true nor does it rewrite history. Dem's preach this fantasy to get votes. It's not the truth.

That's absolutely not true, the democratic south has never embraced anything anout civil rights. They went to war, fought for segragation and have complied kicking and screaming. Just because it's repeated a million times does not make it true nor does it rewrite history. Dem's preach this fantasy to get votes. It's not the truth.

 

Talk to Marty. I'm just the messenger.

That's absolutely not true, the democratic south has never embraced anything anout civil rights. They went to war, fought for segragation and have complied kicking and screaming. Just because it's repeated a million times does not make it true nor does it rewrite history. Dem's preach this fantasy to get votes. It's not the truth.

 

So LBJ was not a Democrat and not from the South? And Yarborough from Texas?

So LBJ was not a Democrat and not from the South? And Yarborough from Texas?

 

You can find a few exceptions to anything. The Dems who were mostly southerners record on hatred and bigotry speaks for itself.

Perhaps the quoter was referencing what happened immediately after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

You can find a few exceptions to anything. The Dems who were mostly southerners record on hatred and bigotry speaks for itself.

 

I agree. Thurmmond, Wallace n Helms come to mind.