Huey Long: Zitate auf Englisch
that's my slogan.
Huey Long (T. Harry Williams, Huey Long, p. 706)
“Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.”
Written on banners used in the 1928 gubernatorial election; quoted in Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 39.
Huey Long, U.S. Senate floor speech, March 5, 1935
Huey Long on Adolph Hitler and fascism.(Williams p. 761P)
Huey Long on the new deal. (Williams p. 708)
Speech given during the 1928 gubernatorial election; quoted in Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 40.
“For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.”
Every Man a King (1933), p. 277.
Response by Long during an interview with the journalist Forrest Davis (1933); quoted in Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970).
And they learned.
Huey Long on conservative resistance to illiteracy programs for Negroes (Williams p. 706)
When the head of the Ku Klux Klan, Hiram W Evans, threatened to campaign against Long in Louisiana; quoted in "Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression," Alan Brinkley. Random House Digital: 2011.
Huey Long on his Negro policy as President (Williams p. 704)
1933 Congressional Record, 72d Cong, 2d sess., Vol. 76; quoted in Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 55.
Number 7 in the sum and substance of the Share our Wealth program (1935); quoted in Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 74.
Huey Long on African American Education (Williams p. 524)
“When the United States gets fascism, it will call it anti-fascism.”
Originally reported by Robert Cantrell. But years later Cantrell told Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. that that was his own summary of his conversation with Long, not Long's exact words. See They Never Said It by Paul F. Boller and John H. George (1990) https://books.google.com/books?id=6zfnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA94&dq=when+fascism+comes+to+america,+it+will+be+called+anti-fascism&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo0sSQ0_TRAhWmwVQKHQ85C9M4KBDoAQguMAQ#v=onepage&q=when%20fascism%20comes%20to%20america%2C%20it%20will%20be%20called%20anti-fascism&f=false. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variante: When the United States gets fascism, it will call it 100 percent Americanism.
Said on September 8, 1935 on his way to the hospital following being shot outside the State Capitol; quoted in Harry T. Williams, Huey Long (Vingtage Books/Random House, 1969), p. 866.
Henry Fountain Ashurst
