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Benjamin Ryan Tillman war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker und von 1890 bis 1894 Gouverneur von South Carolina. Anschließend hatte er einen Sitz im Senat der Vereinigten Staaten. Er trug den Spitznamen Pitchfork . Wikipedia  

✵ 11. August 1847 – 3. Juli 1918
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“The whites have absolute control of the State government, and we intend at any and all hazards to retain it.”

As quoted in Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian (1967), by Francis Butler Simkins. Louisiana State University Press. OCLC 1877696, p. 144.

“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.
As quoted in "The Question of Race in the South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1895" (July 1952), by George B. Tindall. The Journal of Negro History, 37 (3): 277–303. JSTOR 2715494., p. 94.

“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.”

As quoted in Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian (1967), by Francis Butler Simkins. Louisiana State University Press. OCLC 1877696, p. 144.

“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.”

As quoted in "The Question of Race in the South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1895" (July 1952), by George B. Tindall. The Journal of Negro History, 37 (3): 277–303. JSTOR 2715494., p. 94.

“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.”

Regarding the Democratic Party's goals (1909), as quoted in Voices of Civil War America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life https://books.google.com/books?id=1mwy-XB6bs8C&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=%22We+reorganized+the+Democratic+Party+with+one+plank+and+only+one+plank%22&source=bl&ots=z38s4iS5Oi&sig=-bHC9bf27SsAB3u_mTeTVENP1vs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAmoVChMI28L2gZqPxwIVgTI-Ch1lWgai#v=onepage&q=%22We%20reorganized%20the%20Democratic%20Party%20with%20one%20plank%20and%20only%20one%20plank%22&f=false, by Lawrence Kreiser and Ray B. Browne, p. 27.
1900s, 1909

“We made up our minds that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution were themselves null and void.”

Speech to the U.S. Senate https://web.archive.org/web/20160228073733/http://emancipation.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/emancipation/publication/attachments/A_Republican_Text-Book_for_Colored_Voters.pdf (23 March 1900)
1900s, 1900

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