Benjamin Tillman quotes

The whites have absolute control of the State government, and we intend at any and all hazards to retain it. (Benjamin Tillman)
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 gratifying his lust on our wives and daughters without lynching him. View quote
Benjamin Tillman
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 for eight years life became worthless under such conditions. View quote
Benjamin Tillman
We made up our minds that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution were themselves null and void. View quote
Benjamin Tillman
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. View quote
Benjamin Tillman
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. View quote
Benjamin Tillman