Douglas Wilder Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Douglas Wilder:

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.

Douglas Wilder

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

Douglas Wilder

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

Douglas Wilder

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?

Douglas Wilder

Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race.

Douglas Wilder

Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy.

Douglas Wilder

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.

Douglas Wilder

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

Douglas Wilder