Strom Thurmond
Strom Thurmond
James Strom Thurmondwas an American politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator from South Carolina. He ran for president in 1948 as the States Rights Democratic Party candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes. Thurmond represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Democrat and, after 1964, as a Republican...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 December 1902
CountryUnited States of America
Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.
Are you making all this fuss over me?
I did not risk my life on the beaches of Normandy to come back to this country and sit idly by while a bunch of hack politicians whittles away your heritage and mine.
Mr. Gore, I knew Harry Truman, ... I ran against Harry Truman. And Mr. Gore, you are no Harry Truman.
I love all of you -- and especially your wives,
While I respect those who disagree with me, I believe that support for regenerative medicine is the essence of the pro-life position,
First, as someone who has taken a pro-life stance, I believe that Congress should pursue policies that encourage the development of life-saving treatments. Second, nuclear transplantation research, if performed under the strictest of safeguards, is both moral and ethical.
New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.
until shortly before President Clinton made his public statement regarding the strikes.
During my consideration of the new and emerging areas of regenerative medicine, including nuclear transplantation technologies, two basic principles have guided my thoughts,
I don't think it's a question of age as much as it's a question of what kind of shape you're in.
We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either.
because he stands up for what he believes in - even when he's wrong.
By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject the Government into the most sensitive areas of human contractual relations-agreements for personal services. In so doing, constitutional interpretations of long standing are being swept aside in favor of tortuous rationalizations which studiously ignore the constitutionally-forbidden imposition of involuntary servitude on citizens