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George Corley Wallace war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker der Demokratischen Partei. Er wurde viermal zum Gouverneur des Bundesstaates Alabama gewählt . Als Vertreter des konservativen Flügels der Demokraten war er in seiner ersten Amtszeit ein Verfechter der Rassentrennungspolitik im US-amerikanischen Süden. Er kandidierte auch viermal für das Amt des US-Präsidenten . Wikipedia  

✵ 25. August 1919 – 13. September 1998   •   Andere Namen George Corley Wallace Jr.
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“I was wrong. Those days are over, and they ought to be over.”

Speech (1979), as quoted in Government in America: people, politics, and policy (2009), by George C. Edwards, Pearson Education, p. 80.
1970s

“Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?”

Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics (2006) by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, p. 106

“I have learned what suffering means. In a way that was impossible, I think I can understand something of the pain black people have come to endure. I know I contributed to that pain, and I can only ask your forgiveness.”

Address to the Montgomery Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (1979), as quoted in "George Wallace – From the Heart" (17 March 1995), The Washington Post.
1970s

“If I can't forgive him, the Lord won’t forgive me.”

About Arthur Bremer http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20120608/NEWS/120609818?p=4&tc=pg

“I stand here today, as Governor of this sovereign state, and refuse to willingly submit to illegal usurpation of power by the Central Government.”

Speech in the door of the University of Alabama auditorium (11 June 1963), quoted in New York Times (12 June 1963) "Alabama Admits Negro Students"
1960s

“As your governor, I shall resist any illegal federal court order, even to the point of standing at the schoolhouse door in person, if necessary.”

Gubernatorial campaign promise (1962), quoted in George Wallace: Conservative Populist
1960s

“If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.”

Said at a speech, footage of which is shown in the documentary George Wallace, part of PBS' American Experience

“I was young and brash.”

Regarding his stand in the schoolhouse door http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20120608/NEWS/120609818?p=2

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