Benjamin Tillman

"The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers in the South before they learn their place again."

"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."

"How did we recover our liberty? By fraud and violence. We tried to overcome the thirty thousand majority by honest methods, which was a mathematical impossibility. After we had borne these indignities…"

"We made up our minds that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution were themselves null and void."

"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."

"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 gratifyi…"

"Republicanism means Negro equality, while the Democratic Party means that the white man is supreme. That is why we Southerners are all Democrats... History has no record of Negro rule. The situation i…"

"The whites have absolute control of the State government, and we intend at any and all hazards to retain it."