Klan Quotations

Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.

I don't think I'm alarmist. I'm more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk around with a Klan hat on or you've got a swastika on you arm, you just look like a dope, you know what I mean?

I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.

When the Klan has been forced to unmask, they have been broken.

I did dramatize some of my reporting about the Klan when I wrote that book. I thought that everybody knew I was trying to reach a big audience with the Klan book.

What you do today when you go into that jury room is going to echo throughout the history of Neshoba County from now on, ... You can either change the history that Edgar Ray Killen and the Klan wrote for us, or you can confirm it.

We are not finished, we don't believe, with these indictments. We're looking deeper into this particular Klan activity in South Carolina and we intend to get to the bottom of it.

We didn't have any Ku Klux Klan in Washington, D.C. There was no White Citizens Council. I mean, there was just this vast separation that you didn't have any kind of contact with until you went beyond the boundaries of your community.

The real threat are the unrobed Klan in the halls of government, ... Dissident at Large.

What I wanted people to recognize is that racism is in all of us, in layers. Some in more layers than others. It's not just the Klan guy and the black-fist guy, and it's about peeling away those layers.

You see, the Confederate flag flying above the statehouse flies in a vacuum, ... The Klan can misuse it as a racist tool, as it has, and others can misuse it solely as a symbol for racism, as they have.

It was just a matter of survival...of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl and hearing the Ku Klux Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.

This is like hiring the Ku Klux Klan to represent you in a desegregation case,

The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan realm of W. Va.

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.

I hear he's getting support from (Louisiana-based Republican and onetime Ku Klux Klan operative) David Duke, ... I can't be part of that.

I ran into Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things made me decide not to build on the Alabama coast, so we came back to Memphis.

By this time another group of kids had come down from Nashville. So 22 of us spent the night in the Birmingham bus station with the Klan marching around outside.

For the Ku Klux Klan to now attempt to engage schools is a new and scary development in Michigan. Schools are a breeding ground for racism. This has to be stomped out right away.