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In reply to the discussion: Billy Graham statue for U.S. Capitol to be unveiled next week [View all]LudwigPastorius
(9,486 posts)38. Graham will bookend nicely with N.Carolina's other statue, Zebulon Vance.
...who said, in opposition to abolition:
Plainly and unequivocally, common sense says keep the slave where he is nowin servitude. The interest of the slave himself imperatively demands it. The interest of the master, of the United States, of the world, nay of humanity itself, says, keep the slave in his bondage; treat him humanely, teach him Christianity, care for him in sickness and old age, and make his bondage light as may be; but above all, keep him a slave and in strict subordination; for that is his normal condition;...
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This is the second statue they are putting up this week. They are going to have tons of them.
jimfields33
May 11
#1
I have ZERO fucking patience for a goddamn anti Semite. I can't stand some shitty, full-of-hate, half-dead motherfucker.
SoFlaBro
May 12
#52
Gross. The separation of church and state is shrinking, and Talibangelicals love that.
Timeflyer
May 11
#11
I reckon if the Christo-fascists ever saw Andy Griffith in A Face In The Crowd
Midnight Writer
May 11
#16
If you visited DC and the Capitol, did you ever spend time looking at the State statues?
Freethinker65
May 11
#14
Wow, we replaced our obscure pols from 100 years ago with Johnny Cash & Daisy Bates
ArkansasDemocrat1
May 11
#18
Wow, the beginning of the GOP/Christianity political charade. Nothing to be proud of.
walkingman
May 11
#20
A racist hypocritical POS, but compared to his son? I can turn my head at this idiocy.
hlthe2b
May 11
#22
Graham will bookend nicely with N.Carolina's other statue, Zebulon Vance.
LudwigPastorius
May 11
#38