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  1. May 2019
    1. And we stand against putting our wives and daughters and sisters into combat units of the United States Army.

      Women should be allowed to decide if they want to enlist in the Army because it is their own decision.

    2. we stand with him against the amoral idea that gay and lesbian couples should have the same standing in law as married men and women.

      Being gay or lesbian during that time period was viewed as something inhumane. It isn't like today where we understand that gays and lesbians are humans too just like us.

    3. Now, “Greater love than this hath no man than that he lay down his life for his friend.”¹ Here were 19-year-old boys ready to lay down their lives to stop a mob from molesting old people they did not even know. And as those boys took back the streets of Los Angeles, block by block, my friends, we must take back our cities, and take back our culture, and take back our country.

      This shows the the young people are the future, they are the ones who will take control and do what they feel is right.

    4. Mr. Clinton however, has a different agenda. At its top is unrestricted abortion on demand. When the Irish-Catholic Governor of Pennsylvania, Robert Casey, asked to say a few words on behalf of the 25 million unborn children destroyed since Roe v Wade,

      The debate on abortion really focuses on when is does a fetus become a baby and have rights.

    5. Pat Buchanan was a conservative journalist who worked in the Nixon and Reagan administrations before running for the Republican presidential nomination in 1992. Although he lost the nomination to George H.W. Bush, he was invited to speak at that year’s Republican National Convention, where he delivered a fiery address criticizing liberals and declaring a “culture war” at the heart of American life.

      This is something that still happens today where both Republicans and Democrats just focus on criticizing each other instead of trying to find a middle ground that benefits the people.

  2. Mar 2019
    1. Quite a number of the one-third alleged cases of assault that have been personally investigated by the writer have shown that there was no foundation in fact for the charges; yet the claim is not made that there were no real culprits among them. The negro has been too long associated with the white man not to have copied his vices as well as his virtues.

      The majority of assault cases that have been looked into do not have any evidence for the charge, it is usually just by word and it doesn't even make sense.

    2. Not only are two hundred men and women put to death annually, on the average, in this country by mobs, but these lives are taken with the greatest publicity. In many instances the leading citizens aid and abet by their presence when they do not participate, and the leading journals inflame the public mind to the lynching point with scare-head articles and offers of rewards.

      The journalists actively put out articles that cover these lynchings and even offered rewards. The media and the people all around approved of lynching and because of that, no one would actually enforce the law.

    3. And the world has accepted this theory without let or hindrance. … No matter that our laws presume every man innocent until he is proved guilty; no matter that it leaves a certain class of individuals completely at the mercy of another class; … no matter that mobs make a farce of the law and a mockery of justice; no matter that hundreds of boys are being hardened in crime and schooled in vice by the repetition of such scenes before their eyes

      It is one thing to have laws that says one thing, but it has to be enforced and unable to be bent to favor one side.

    4. The result is that many men have been put to death whose innocence was afterward established; and to-day, under this reign of the “unwritten law,” no colored man, no matter what his reputation, is safe from lynching if a white woman, no matter what her standing or motive, cares to charge him with insult or assault.

      Blacks were seen at such a low level, they could be innocent and still be charged for insult or assault just by word. It made blacks fear to go outside near any white women because of they feared getting lynched.

    5. It represents the cool, calculating deliberation of intelligent people who openly avow that there is an “unwritten law” that justifies them in putting human beings to death without complaint under oath, without trial by jury, without opportunity to make defense, and without right of appeal. …

      It's the rich that have this deep hated and spout these lies for others to follow. They rich wanted to stay rich and used methods to put blacks down.