Quotes from Laurence Leamer

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

If jurors were looking for a way to come back finding for the UKA, Mays had given it to them. Senator Michael Figures made the plaintiff's final arguments. He had been there on Herndon Street the morning of the lynching, and he had seen Donald's body hanging from a tree. He had been

As the two young men prowled through the black neighborhood, they were not looking for any black man in particular. Their victim could be young, old, fat, skinny, weak, strong. They didn't care. They weren't afraid. They had a gun. All that mattered was that he was the right color.

She told Figures that yes, the civil lawsuit against the Klan could be filed in her name. But she was still suspicious. She had learned long ago that the bigger a promise the less likely it would ever happen, and in her expertise that was doubly true when white men made the promise.

But Trump had gone to a military high school, and he felt that made him as much a military expert as if he had fought in the Battle of the Bulge.

I am a follower of Christ. The structure of the United Klans of America is patterned very much after the structure built by Christ to carry His message to the world. The Son of God had twelve disciples. The UKA has twelve imperial officers." A

The Klansmen and their frenzied followers ran through the silent, deserted streets, carrying clubs and chains. Favorite weapons were "head-knockers," hollowed-out baseball bats that had been filled with molten lead and then sealed back up so they looked like normal athletic equipment.

They will have to arrest me before they integrate the University of Alabama," the governor told columnist Drew Pearson.

Truman was so self-absorbed that it took him a long while to realize Marella had taken him out of her life.

They were a motley, dispirited underclass that wanted black people held down in part because they needed someone to look down upon, as most of the white world looked down on them.

She was perfect; otherwise she was perfect

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free," Wharton wrote in her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Age of Innocence.

As Joe recalled, Dingell didn't know who the freshman Congressman was. "You like clean air up there?" Dingell asked when he learned the young man was from Boston. Joe nodded in the affirmative. "Well, I'm from Detroit and I don't, and there's no chance you'll ever get on that committee." That

He wasn't happy unless he was going so fast that one misstep would send him riding shotgun in heaven.

Shelton was violent in his proclamations and in his philosophy, and likely violent in his home life. "Somebody told me, 'Well, why don't you get a divorce?' Mrs. Shelton reflected in 2014. "You didn't get divorced back then. No matter what went on. Women got beat up all the time. Like it was their fault.

While Dees was growing up, he had seen that black lives didn't matter, and until they did, there could be no true justice.

Two white teenagers, one of them an Eagle Scout, had been looking forward to being part of the motorcade. Upset at the cancellation, they drove into black neighborhoods on a motorcycle carrying a Confederate flag. When they came upon two black boys on bicycles, one of the white youths fired his pistol at thirteen-year-old Virgil Ware and killed him.

Driving home later that night, Dees lamented that young black people born after the end of the civil rights era knew almost nothing about those who had died so they could live freer lives. And those of the white race knew even less about one of the most important social

Driving home later that night, Dees lamented that young black people born after the end of the civil rights era knew almost nothing about those who had died so they could live freer lives. And those of the white race knew even less about one of the most important social and political movements in American history.

There was no fatal illness, only the exhaustion of endless grieving.

Wallace seemed to be speaking of Shelton's clear objective when the candidate said, "The Klan wants to grow until it makes every office seeker in Alabama doubt that he can be elected without the Klan's seal of approval.

A leader is known as much by the quality of his enemies as the quantity of his friends, and Ted Kennedy's greatest enemy was the president of the United States. Nixon feared that the senator from Massachusetts might one day rise from the dark waters of Chappaquiddick to challenge him and his party. Nixon