Frasi di George Wallace

George Corley Wallace è stato un politico statunitense, in quattro occasioni governatore dell'Alabama.

Definito dai suoi biografi Dan T. Carter e Stephan Lesher, «il perdente più influente del XX secolo», partecipò a quattro elezioni presidenziali, in cui per tre volte si presentò senza successo alle primarie del Partito Democratico, e per una, nel 1968, come candidato indipendente, non avendo ottenuto l'investitura democratica.

Esponente dei democratici del Sud, storicamente avversi a modernizzare la società post-schiavista, fu noto soprattutto per il suo sostegno populista alla segregazione razziale durante il periodo delle lotte per i diritti civili degli afroamericani, convinzioni che avrebbe in seguito pubblicamente rinnegato. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Agosto 1919 – 13. Settembre 1998   •   Altri nomi George Corley Wallace Jr.
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George Wallace: Frasi in inglese

“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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