Strom Thurmond Quotes

United States, Politician
December 5, 1902 – June, 26, 2003.

James Strom Thurmond Sr. was an American politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator from South Carolina. He ran for president in 1948 as the States Rights Democratic Party candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes. Thurmond represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Southern Democrat and, after 1964, as a Republican.

I love all of you men, but you women even more!

Strom Thurmond
- Men
- Women
- Love
This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.

Strom Thurmond
- Power
- Government
- Corrupt

Martin Luther King demeans his race and retards the advancement of his people.

Strom Thurmond
- Race
- Advancement
- Retard
Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.

Strom Thurmond
- System
- Open
- Segregation
The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

Strom Thurmond
All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.

Strom Thurmond
- Force
- Schools
- Homes
We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.

Strom Thurmond
I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.

Strom Thurmond
- Force
- Break
- Segregation

I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South.

Strom Thurmond
- Done
- Nation
- Black People
I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation.

Strom Thurmond
- Black
- Development
- Nation