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Walter Mondale Quotes

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“And now he’s president and you still can’t sleep. And now you’d like to get under the bed. You’re right to be scared. You’ve gotta be scared. I don’t know why you wouldn’t be scared.”
— Walter Mondale, 'I don’t know why you wouldn’t be scared': Former Vice President Walter Mondale sounds off on Trump and Trumpism
Tagged: Donald Trump, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Insomnia
“I’m a strong pro-civil rights advocate; they were pushing against an open door in terms of the objective of civil rights and preventing any future lily white, segregated delegations.”
— Walter Mondale
Tagged: Civil Rights, Lily White, Anti-White, Segregation
“You know, I lived in this country at a time when we had segregation. I was in the middle of all the civil rights fights in the '60s and the '70s. And thank God we've gotten rid of official discrimination.”
— Walter Mondale, Interview with Former Vice President Walter Mondale | RealClearPolitics
Tagged: Segregation, discrimination, 1960s, 1970s, Civil Rights
“We have a president who doesn’t care about the facts. That’s new and very dangerous. Shocking, I would say.”
— Walter Mondale
Tagged: Donald Trump, Facts, Fake News, dangerous, Shocking
“A leader has to be held responsible for the result of what he says. The result of what he’s been saying is that our whole nation believes that he was supporting white extremism. Didn’t have anything bad to say about Nazis. That sort of thing. If he didn’t mean it, he should have corrected it in a way that makes it clear what he means. But that isn’t what happened.”
— Walter Mondale, 'I don’t know why you wouldn’t be scared': Former Vice President Walter Mondale sounds off on Trump and Trumpism
Tagged: Donald Trump, Nazis, leaders, Responsibility
“In the last few weeks, there has been talk of causes, cures, and civil rights. The proposed remedies are many. Their efficacy is uncertain. The truth is, it seems to me, that there is no one solution, but there are many solutions. Our cities are beset by a multitude of ills, which can be cured only by a multitude of remedies. But every solution and every plan for the multiple evils in our cities and their ghettos is drastically and seriously affected by racial segregation in housing. With high concentrations of low-income, poorly educated, and unemployed persons in our cities—and without dispersal or balance throughout our communities—our cities will never be able to solve the problems of de facto school segregation, slum housing, crime and violence, disease, blight, and pollution.”
— Walter Mondale
Tagged: Civil Rights, Racial Segregation, Housing Segregation, Slum Housing, Crime, Violence, disease, Blight, Pollution
“I think that there is a crucial debate under way in American ghettos, and that debate involves a dispute about the basic decency of white America....This proposal which we call 'fair housing' is fundamental to that debate. Because the resolution of that issue I think depends more upon white America than upon the persuasiveness of these two opposite points of view. Because we have to show that we intend to be decent Americans. We must show that we don't intend to live separately in this country but that we intend to live together.”
— Walter Mondale
Tagged: American Ghettos, White America, Decency, racism, Segregation
“He was a young, good-looking guy, big guy, a huge personality, what somebody would call a ‘room bender.’ He would come into a room and everybody knew he was there. Lots of energy, part of the Kennedy mystique, and was an all-out progressive, itchy and anxious to change and reform and get it done right away. Of course I immediately identified with him because I had essentially the same views on that stuff.”
— Walter Mondale, Walter Mondale Oral History, Vice President of the United States
Tagged: Ted Kennedy, Good-Looking, Progressive
“The view of how America speaks is reflected in our laws. And one of the laws is fair housing. It very clearly prohibits discrimination in the sale and rental of housing in America. It's been a sad fact of American life that the practice in many communities has been quite the opposite. That's why we passed the bill—to make a change. There's a lot of bad consequences that flow from segregation. The kids don't do as well. We live separately. We don't learn about each other. We're all Americans. And yet, we separate based on, basically, race. And I believe it's got to stop.”
— Walter Mondale, Fair Housing Act Never Fully Enforced, Walter Mondale Says
Tagged: Fair Housing, discrimination, Segregation
“This legislation alone will not bring an end to the ghetto—but it will provide the opportunity for those persons economically able to escape the ghetto to do so, and to take their families with them. It will assure them free choice in the selection of their housing. For those still condemned by poverty to remain in the ghetto, there will be at least the knowledge that it is poverty—and not their fellow citizens or their Government—that forces them to live in the slums. There will be at least the knowledge that their children will have an opportunity to escape the restrictions and confines of the ghetto pressure cooker.”
— Walter Mondale
Tagged: Poverty, Slums, Government, Black America, Ghetto, Housing
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