Elbert Guillory Quotes

United States, Politician
June 24, 1944

Elbert Lee Guillory is a former member of the Louisiana State Senate. An American Republican, he represented District 24, including his native Opelousas, and several rural precincts, from May 2, 2009, when he won a special election, until January 11, 2016, when his full term to which he was elected in 2011 ended.

The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement.

Elbert Guillory
Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is a violation of the rights of man.

Elbert Guillory

We have to convince people that the handouts - just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow, just get a little check and a few food stamps, it will keep you on the plantation for the rest of your life, that's not a life. That's not living. It is not good enough. It is not acceptable. We have to educate our people that that is no longer good. You have to get off the plantation, off the government plantation.

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- Life
- Food
- Government
You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people.

Elbert Guillory
Liberalism Has Nearly Destroyed Black America, And Now It’s Time For Black America To Return The Favor.

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- America
- Black
- Destroyed