QUOTE: I would find this statement highly offensive, if it weren't for the fact I thought there was a grain of truth to it:
"As "states’ rights" is the Republican term for keeping your boot on the black man’s neck, so "equal treatment" is Republican-speak for not doing anything. "
And also a nice reminder of one of those moments that makes me proud to be a Democrat:
"The Democrats’ hour of commitment came in August 1948 at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, when, after a stirring speech by Hubert Humphrey, then the mayor of Minneapolis, the delegates revolted against the controlling alliance of Northern bosses and swallowtail Southern politicians to vote a powerful civil-rights plank into the platform. This was the moment of commitment, the moment when the party bid adieu to the "solid South" and the certainty of carrying the states of the Old Confederacy in every election. It was the moment that caused Strom Thurmond to run for President as the candidate of the Dixiecrat Party and ultimately to join the Republican Party, where he was welcomed and is honored to this day."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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