Frases de James Oliver Eastland

James Oliver Eastland fue un político estadounidense de Mississippi que sirvió en el Senado de los Estados Unidos como demócrata en 1941; y nuevamente desde 1943 hasta su renuncia el 27 de diciembre de 1978. Ha sido llamado la "Voz del Sur Blanco" y el "Padrino de la Política de Mississippi".[1]​ Un Dixiecrat, Eastland era conocido como el símbolo de la resistencia del Sur a la integración racial durante la era de los derechos civiles, a menudo hablando de los negros como "una raza inferior".[2]​

Hijo de un destacado abogado, político y sembrador de algodón, Eastland asistió a las escuelas locales del condado de Scott, Mississippi, y tomó cursos en varias universidades, incluyendo la Universidad de Mississippi, la Universidad de Vanderbilt y la Universidad de Alabama. Completó su educación legal estudiando en la oficina de su padre y fue admitido en el colegio de abogados en 1927. Eastland ejerció la abogacía en el Condado de Sunflower y se hizo cargo de la gestión de la plantación de algodón de su familia. Se involucró activamente en la política como demócrata y sirvió en la Cámara de Representantes de Mississippi de 1928 a 1932.

En 1941, el senador Pat Harrison murió en el cargo, y el gobernador nombró a Eastland para llenar la vacante con la condición de que no se postulara más adelante en el año en la elección especial para completar el mandato. Eastland cumplió su palabra y sirvió de junio a septiembre. La elección especial fue ganada por el congresista Wall Doxey. En 1942, Eastland derrotó a Doxey en las primarias para la nominación demócrata en las elecciones para un mandato completo. Las primarias demócratas fueron entonces equivalentes a las elecciones, y Eastland regresó al Senado en enero de 1943. Fue reelegido cinco veces y sirvió hasta su renuncia en diciembre de 1978, días antes de finalizar su último mandato. Eastland avanzó a la presidencia del Comité Judicial del Senado y a la presidencia pro tempore del Senado.

Eastland murió en 1986 y fue enterrado en Forest Cemetery en Forest, Mississippi. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. noviembre 1904 – 19. febrero 1986
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James Oliver Eastland: Frases en inglés

“Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”

Other Eastland quote against Brown
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“On May 17, 1954, the Constitution of the United States was destroyed because of the Supreme Court’s decision. You are not obliged to obey the decisions of any court which are plainly fraudulent sociological considerations.”

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954–1965, by Juan Williams, Viking Penguin, January 1, 1987, <nowiki>ISBN 978-0-670-81412-1</nowiki>, p. 38.
On August 12, 1955 in Senatobia, Mississippi, about the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. The Board of Education, which found racial segregation in the public schools unconstitutional
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“This decision reveals an alarming tendency to destroy the sovereignty of the states. Our supreme court is usurping the legislative function, and Congress may yet prove the last citadel of constitutional government”

"Dixie Members Of Congress Bitterly Hit Court Ruling" https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12135575/the_greenville_news/. The Greenville News. United Press. April 4, 1944. p. 4 ; ‘Congressmen From South Hit Negro Vote Rule’; Los Angeles Times; April 4, 1944, p. 2
Speech following Smith v. Allright, which outlawed white primaries as used in Mississippi
1940s

“I would not be surprised if Martin Luther King and these agitators next desecrate the graves of Confederate soldiers and drag their remains through the streets in an effort to garner headlines. And what kind of person is participating in this march? Beatniks, frauds, and persons wanted to answer for crimes in other States.”

To the Senate about the Grenada, Mississippi civil rights movement, after activists put American flags on the place where a Confederate memorial stood. June 16, 1966
Congressional Records https://books.google.fr/books?id=TqUs5UlIPaUC&q=%22And+what+kind+of+person+is+participating+in+this%22&dq=%22And+what+kind+of+person+is+participating+in+this%22&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjw8NC1sb3kAhUgDmMBHbF7BogQ6AEIKzAA%7C
1960s

“I believe it’s a publicity stunt.”

About case of these missing civil rights workers (also according to Johnson)
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“I don’t like you — or your kind.”

During a debate on the Voting Rights Acr, to fellow Senator Jacob Javits (R-NY), who attempted to have the bill come for a vote and was at this time the only Jewish-American Senator
Javits's Rise Slow but on His Terms https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/05/archives/javitss-riseslow-but-on-his-terms-industry-and-intelligence.html
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“Your chances of getting support in the black community are poor at best. You have a master-servant philosophy with regard to blacks.”

Aaron Henry to Eastland relative to his chances of reelection. 1978
James O. Eastland https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/james-oliver-eastland/
About him

“Rhodesia has an ingredient which is sadly lacking in America. This is racial harmony.”

After travelling in Rhodesia, on 1969. Quoted in the Clarion-Ledger.
The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer https://books.google.fr/books?id=B_2E5pIyB3kC&pg=PA266&dq=%22Rhodesia+has+an+ingredient%22+james+eastland+%22racial+harmony%22&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiFzcrD-4_kAhVJx4UKHc-VCfwQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=%22Rhodesia%20has%20an%20ingredient%22%20james%20eastland%20%22racial%20harmony%22&f=false, page 266
1960s

“As I said, we have more Nigra professional men, more businessmen, we have substantial Nigra cotton planters. In fact, they have made more progress in the south than in the north. The master-servant relationship today is largely a northern product.”

James Eastland interviewed http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/eastland_james.html by Mike Wallace on The Mike Wallace Interview (July 24, 1957)
1950s

“Today, however, a trend away from traditional standards of propriety begins to be in evidence. Our Court has been indoctrinated and brainwashed by left-wing pressure groups. The Court is out of step with the American people. We see Justices of the Supreme Court banqueted and honored by left-wing Communist-front organizations militantly interested in legislation on which the Supreme Court must pass.”

Congressional Record https://books.google.fr/books?id=WhPOxPiWV2YC&q=%22indoctrinated+and+brainwashed+by+left-wing+pressure+groups.%22&dq=%22indoctrinated+and+brainwashed+by+left-wing+pressure+groups.%22&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjiodS__tjkAhWLnhQKHSqcBdoQ6AEIcjAJ, 1956
1950s

“The white people of the South do not have race prejudice. They have race consciousness, and they are proud to possess this awareness of the significance of race. Had they not possessed it, the South would have been mongrelized and southern civilization destroyed long ago.”

Simkin, John (September 1997). "James Eastland" http://spartacus-educational.com/USAeastland.htm
Speech in the United States Senate after the Brown v. Board of Education landmark court decision (27th May, 1954)
1950s

“Organized mongrel minorities control the government. I am going to fight it to the last ditch. They are not going to Harlemize the country.”

Extracts from his speech to the Senate against the FEPC. February 9,1948
Congressional Record https://books.google.fr/books?id=4Q8QgQ4LAAQC&q=%22If+the+President%E2%80%99s+civil-rights+program+is+right,+then+reconstruction+was+right%22&dq=%22If+the+President%E2%80%99s+civil-rights+program+is+right,+then+reconstruction+was+right%22&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0, 1948
1940s

“Let me say frankly that in my judgment the CIO and the PAC are Communist organizations. I know that there are millions of good loyal Americans who belong to the CIO; but in my judgment the leadership of that organization is definitely Communistic.”

Congressional Record https://books.google.fr/books?id=mHjzYq7zoocC&q=%22+I+know+that+there+are+millions+of+good+loyal+Americans+who+belong+to+the+CIO%22&dq=%22+I+know+that+there+are+millions+of+good+loyal+Americans+who+belong+to+the+CIO%22&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGo4ar-NPkAhXMxIUKHWB6DMYQ6AEIKzAA (1946)
1940s

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