The “Segregation Now, Segregation Forever” Speech
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Now check further in G Wallace's speech how he invokes God to support his racial segregation theories, then denounces liberals for their view that poverty, discrimination and lack of opportunity is the cause of communism, which in larger part it simply was. He was a marroon just like you, consider the following & i rest my case.
This nation was never meant to be a unit of one . . . but a united of the many . . . . that is the
exact reason our freedom loving forefathers established the states, so as to divide the rights and
powers among the states, insuring that no central power could gain master government control.
In united effort we were meant to live under this government . . . whether Baptist, Methodist,
Presbyterian, Church of Christ, or whatever one's denomination or religious belief . . . each
respecting the others right to a separate denomination . . . each, by working to develop his own,
enriching the total of all our lives through united effort. And so it was meant in our political lives
. . . whether Republican, Democrat, Prohibition, or whatever political party . . . each striving
from his separate political station . . . respecting the rights of others to be separate and work from
within their political framework . . . and each separate political station making its contribution to
our lives . . . .
And so it was meant in our racial lives . . . each race, within its own framework has the
freedom to teach . . to instruct . . to develop . . to ask for and receive deserved help from others
of separate racial stations. This is the great freedom of our American founding fathers . . . but if
we amalgamate into the one unit as advocated by the communist philosophers . . then the
enrichment of our lives . . . the freedom for our development . . . is gone forever. We become,
therefore, a mongrel unit of one under a single all powerful government . . . and we stand for
everything . . . and for nothing.
The true brotherhood of America, of respecting the separateness of others . . and uniting in
effort . . has been so twisted and distorted from its original concept that there is a small wonder
that communism is winning the world.
We invite the negro citizens of Alabama to work with us from his separate racial station . . as
we will work with him . . to develop, to grow in individual freedom and enrichment. We want
jobs and a good future for BOTH races . . the tubercular and the infirm. This is the basic heritage
of my religion, if which I make full practice . . . . for we are all the handiwork of God.
But we warn those, of any group, who would follow the false doctrine of communistic
amalgamation that we will not surrender our system of government . . . our freedom of race and
religion . . . that freedom was won at a hard price and if it requires a hard price to retain it . . we
are able . . and quite willing to pay it.
The liberals' theory that poverty, discrimination and lack of opportunity is the cause of
communism is a false theory . . . if it were true the South would have been the biggest single
communist bloc in the western hemisphere long ago . . . for after the great War Between the
States, our people faced a desolate land of burned universities, destroyed crops and homes, with
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manpower depleted and crippled, and even the mule, which was required to work the land, was
so scarce that whole communities shared one animal to make the spring plowing. There were no
government handouts, no Marshall Plan aid, no coddling to make sure that our people would not
suffer; instead the South was set upon by the vulturous carpetbagger and federal troops, all loyal
Southerners were denied the vote at the point of bayonet, so that the infamous, illegal 14th
Amendment might be passed. There was no money, no food and no hope of either. But our
grandfathers bent their knee only in church and bowed their head only to God.
Not for a single instant did they ever consider the easy way of federal dictatorship
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