Jesse Helms. Dead.
- “Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade-school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING and MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.” (1996)
- “The University of Negroes and Communists” (1950; referring to the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
- “Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.”
- “All I know is that D’Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.”
- “The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian.”
- “I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That’s the kind of customers we need!” (1996)
- “I’m so old-fashioned I believe in horse whipping.” (1991; during a debate on an AIDS-related amendment.)
- “I shall never forget the stream of school kids marching uptown to place flowers on the Courthouse Square monument on Confederate Memorial Day.” (1956)
- “To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn’t have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing.” (1956)
- “If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.”
- “White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories?”
- “There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy.” (1988)
- “The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that’s thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men’s rights.”
- “I’ve been portrayed as a caveman by some. That’s not true. I’m a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they slants, beaners or niggers.” (1985)
- “Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into
the wrong hands.”
Michelle Malkin already has a Book of Condolences open.
Tags: Jesse Helms, Obituaries, the South, Wingnuts
6. July 2008 at 16:13
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Jesse. All on the Fourth.
Thanks for you work.