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Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures. -- Andres Serrano
When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan. -- Philip Zimbardo
But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan. -- Jon Ronson
I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny. -- Issa Rae
The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks. -- Salman Rushdie
Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you. -- Jonah Goldberg
One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels. -- Leon Panetta
Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound. -- Jon Ronson
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. -- Marcus Garvey
People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you. -- Samuel L. Jackson
Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the car to watch them. She wanted us to know those things existed. -- Nicole Beharie
I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America. -- Henry Rollins
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. -- Charles B. Rangel
If you are an open-minded and tolerant Muslim, you have enough knowledge to question the moves of a Christian governor or even the Ku Klux Klan. They called themselves a Christian organization, but how is that possible since Jesus didn't do that? -- Lupe Fiasco
There is a genocide that is taking place among black men, in particular young black men, but it is not a genocide being perpetuated by white cops, by the Nazis, or by the Klan. Unfortunately and tragically, it is being perpetuated by other young black men. -- Niger Innis
I don't think I'm alarmist. I'm more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk around with a Klan hat on or you've got a swastika on you arm, you just look like a dope, you know what I mean? -- John Ridley
It's not appropriate to joke about the Ku Klux Klan. -- Mitt Romney
I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan. -- Charles Barkley
The Klan sees the world in terms of race and ethnicity. So do Liberals -- Ann Coulter
Fox News is worse than al Qaeda. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan. -- Keith Olbermann
I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan. -- Margaret Sanger
What's the difference between a Dice Clay concert and a Klan rally? Nothing. Trick question. -- Bobcat Goldthwait
The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much. -- Thurgood Marshall
Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back. -- Harper Lee
I hate niggas! I hate em! I wish they'd let me join the Ku Klux Klan! -- Chris Rock
Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together. -- Nathan Bedford Forrest
As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash. -- Kurt Vonnegut
It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years. -- John Piper
Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan. -- Che Guevara
I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man. -- Kool Moe Dee
There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan. -- George Carlin
The Ku Klux Klan stands for free speech, free public schools, the open Bible for our people and for 100% American citizenship. -- James Brice
Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people... He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan. -- Floyd Patterson
Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally. -- Lenny Bruce
The 'terrorist' behavior of petitioners is remarkably similar to the conspiracy of violence and intimidation carried out by the Ku Klux Klan... -- Dawn Johnsen
Do people in the Ku Klux Klan who die and come back as ghosts have to wear two sheets when attending the rally? -- Dana Gould
Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour. -- Alex Hay
Classified ads of the Ku Klux Klan: Tired of all the games? Do you like racial purity, horses and dressing up like a ghost? -- Dana Gould
The case against Jeff Sessions was threadbare three decades ago. It's based on hearsay and innuendo and a joke he made about the Klan. -- Rich Lowry
I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks too. -- Clare Vanderpool
I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan -- Mary Daly
That's true that Sen. Robert Bird was in the Klan and a lot of people were friends of Robert Byrd in the U.S. Senate, Democrats and Republicans. -- David Duke
Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena. -- Robert Byrd
I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Sex and racism have always been tied together. Look at the thousands of black men who got lynched and castrated. The reason the Klan came into being was to protect white southern women. -- Spike Lee
I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan. -- Philip Zimbardo
The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week whether banning cross burning by groups like the Klu Klux Klan violates the first amendment. The outcome could affect the entertainment at Trent Lott's Christmas party. -- Tina Fey
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Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea Party people you run into this morning, or the U.S. Senate Democratic caucus? -- Howie Carr
Bill Clinton was doing Ku Klux Klan grand kleagel jokes at Byrd's funeral, saying, Oh, Robert C. Byrd, he used the - he was the grand kleagel. He just did what he had to do. -- Sean Hannity
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There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift. -- Chris Crutcher
They call themselves the Ku Klux Klan and they hate pretty much everyone who isn't like them. If you have the wrong color, religion, or birthplace, they don't like you. Around here it's mostly foreigners they hate. -- Clare Vanderpool
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. -- Charles B. Rangel
Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators, the Methodist prowlers, the Baptist guardians of sacred vessels-we have the national mentality of a police lieutenant. -- H. L. Mencken
Hitler wanted to hear all about the American skyscrapers ... but failed utterly to draw logical conclusions from the information. .... He was passionately interested in the Ku Klux Klan. ... He seemed to think it was a political movement similar to his own. -- Ernst Hanfstaengl
Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was. -- Keith Olbermann
You have to look at people now that were members of the Klu Klux Klan or whatever else and now are trying to rewrite their personal histories to tell that they've always been tolerant. It's not peculiar to want to sanitize what you did. -- Ruth Hanna Sachs
We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down. -- Rosa Parks
The Klan as an Order stands behind Pure Womanhood and it is an inspiration to look into the face of one of your sex occupying the sacred desk and administering the Word of God to this people. -- James Brice Klan
I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony. -- Clarence Thomas
Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights. -- Jeff Greenfield
Even the klan revamped their image by losing the hoods and changing their name to the Tea Party. -- Daniel Tosh

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