Frases de Benjamin R. Tillman

Benjamin Ryan Tillman fue un político estadounidense.

Trabajó como agricultor y en los años 1880 fue portavoz de los campesinos blancos pobres. Como gobernador , introdujo reformas populistas que expandieron la enseñanza pública, trasladaron la carga fiscal a los ricos y regularon las vías férreas.

También respaldó el decreto de las leyes de Jim Crow y consideró al linchamiento como una medida aceptable de cumplimiento de la ley. En el Senado de los Estados Unidos , exigió la reforma agraria. Sus embates sobre sus oponentes le granjearon el apodo de Pitchfork Ben . Wikipedia  

✵ 11. agosto 1847 – 3. julio 1918
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Benjamin R. Tillman: Frases en inglés

“The whites have absolute control of the State government, and we intend at any and all hazards to retain it.”

Benjamin Tillman

As quoted in Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian (1967), by Francis Butler Simkins. Louisiana State University Press. OCLC 1877696, p. 144.

“How did we recover our liberty? By fraud and violence.”

Benjamin Tillman

We tried to overcome the thirty thousand majority by honest methods, which was a mathematical impossibility. After we had borne these indignities for eight years life became worthless under such conditions.
As quoted in "The Question of Race in the South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1895" (July 1952), by George B. Tindall. The Journal of Negro History, 37 (3): 277–303. JSTOR 2715494., p. 94.

“We deny, without regard to color, that 'all men are created equal'; it is not true now, and was not true when Jefferson wrote it.”

Benjamin Tillman

As quoted in Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian (1967), by Francis Butler Simkins. Louisiana State University Press. OCLC 1877696, p. 144.

“How did we recover our liberty? By fraud and violence. We tried to overcome the thirty thousand majority by honest methods, which was a mathematical impossibility. After we had borne these indignities for eight years life became worthless under such conditions.”

Benjamin Tillman

As quoted in "The Question of Race in the South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1895" (July 1952), by George B. Tindall. The Journal of Negro History, 37 (3): 277–303. JSTOR 2715494., p. 94.

“We reorganized the Democratic Party with one plank and only one plank, namely, that this is a white man's country and the white men must govern it.”

Benjamin Tillman

Regarding the Democratic Party&#x27;s goals (1909), as quoted in Voices of Civil War America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life https://books.google.com/books?id=1mwy-XB6bs8C&amp;pg=PA27&amp;lpg=PA27&amp;dq=%22We+reorganized+the+Democratic+Party+with+one+plank+and+only+one+plank%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=z38s4iS5Oi&amp;sig=-bHC9bf27SsAB3u_mTeTVENP1vs&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0CCgQ6AEwAmoVChMI28L2gZqPxwIVgTI-Ch1lWgai#v=onepage&amp;q=%22We%20reorganized%20the%20Democratic%20Party%20with%20one%20plank%20and%20only%20one%20plank%22&amp;f=false, by Lawrence Kreiser and Ray B. Browne, p. 27. <br class="br">1900s, 1909

“We made up our minds that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution were themselves null and void.”

Benjamin Tillman

Speech to the U.S. Senate https://web.archive.org/web/20160228073733/http://emancipation.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/emancipation/publication/attachments/A_Republican_Text-Book_for_Colored_Voters.pdf (23 March 1900) <br class="br">1900s, 1900

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