Indeed, violence quickly followed Wallace's inauguration, says Poe. People night-riding and burning crosses. The police beat down people and ran over them with horses, put tear gas on them.
And later that year, four girls were killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama. While George Wallace was elected Alabama's governor three more times and made four runs for president, he would never hold national office. Carter says Wallace's inaugural address ensured he could never become president.
And George Wallace was on the wrong side of history. Wallace himself became a victim of violence on May 15, , while campaigning for president in Maryland.
He was shot five times as he stepped out from behind a bulletproof podium. One of the bullets badly damaged his spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed. Some years later, after Lewis had been elected to Congress, he heard from Wallace. He wanted people to forgive him. He said to me, 'I never hated anybody; I never hated any black people.
Lewis, I'm sorry. Poe was also able to reach the same conclusion. Heaven's sakes, I forgive him," Poe says. No," Lewis says. Its logic is totally material and irresponsible as it runs the full gamut of human desires. Our founding fathers recognized those rights. Today that same system on an international scale is sweeping the world. It is as old as the oldest dictator. It is degenerate and decadent. But the Belgian survivors of the Congo cannot present their case to a war crimes commission.
It is this theory of international power politic that led a group of men on the Supreme Court for the first time in American history to issue an edict, based not on legal precedent, but upon a volume, the editor of which said our Constitution is outdated and must be changed and the writers of which, some had admittedly belonged to as many as half a hundred communist-front organizations.
It is this theory that led this same group of men to briefly bare the ungodly core of that philosophy in forbidding little school children to say a prayer. A Law which the law making body of Congress refused to pass. It is the spirit of power thirst that led the same President to launch a full offensive of twenty-five thousand troops against a university. We reject such acts as free men. We do not defy, for there is nothing to defy.
No government erected by man has that right. We intend, quite simply, to practice the free heritage as bequeathed to us as sons of free fathers. We intend to re-vitalize the truly new and progressive form of government that is less that two hundred years old. We intend to renew our faith as God-fearing men. We intend to roll up our sleeves and pitch in to develop this full bounty God has given us.
Then can we enjoy the full richness of the Great American Dream. This nation was never meant to be a unit of one. In united effort we were meant to live under this government. And so it was meant in our political lives.
And so it was meant in our racial lives. This is the great freedom of our American founding fathers. Wallace as "the most liberal judge that I had ever practiced law in front of" and as a Southern judge with moderate -- some even said liberal -- views of segregation and race relations.
This is not the George Wallace that most Americans remember. The following quotes, culled from speeches and interviews given over his four decades in the public eye, reflect the dramatic changes he underwent during his political career. Having served as judge of the third judicial circuit of Alabama, I feel, my friends, that this judicial experience, will be invaluable to me as your governor.
Let us rise to the call for freedom-loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. The difference between a national Democrat and an Alabama Democrat is like the difference between a Communist and a non-Communist. May speaking to an audience at Johns Hopkins "Nobody in Alabama gets anywhere if he slants an election campaign to the racial issue.
The states must determine if they feel it is of benefit to both races.
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