A Quote by Amity Shlaes

Coolidge showed that the best government was the one that got out of the way. When he refrained, the economy grew, the Ku Klux Klan faded, and Americans got Model A's and automobiles.

Amity Shlaes

Quote Topics

Best Economy Faded Got Government Grew Ku Klux Klan Model Out Way

Quote Author

Amity Shlaes
American - Author
Born: September 10, 1960

There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in housing discrimination, labor discrimination. He decided to take as a client a member of the Ku Klux Klan because the state wanted to get the membership lists of the Klan to find out if they could get something on the Klan. And he said, `I got to take you. I despise you. But we, the NAACP, won that case; NAACP vs. Alabama in the 1950s. Nobody has the right to get your membership lists.' He was fired from the NAACP. To me, he's a hero.

Nat Hentoff

I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and that of a transgender woman who was asked to deliver a sermon at her Montana church and got a standing ovation from her congregation. The idea that Christianity is a blanket term that encompasses both of those attitudes seems ludicrous to me.

Andrew Solomon

It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.

Kurt Vonnegut

The 'terrorist' behavior of petitioners is remarkably similar to the conspiracy of violence and intimidation carried out by the Ku Klux Klan.

Dawn Johnsen

It's not appropriate to joke about the Ku Klux Klan.

Mitt Romney

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.

Harper Lee

I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

Margaret Sanger

I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.

Kool Moe Dee

Fox News is worse than al Qaeda. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan.

Keith Olbermann

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

Kurt Vonnegut

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.

Che Guevara

Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people. He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.

Floyd Patterson

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

Do people in the Ku Klux Klan who die and come back as ghosts have to wear two sheets when attending the rally?