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Huey Long Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“Now, just a word about the poor Negroes … They're here. They've got to be cared for … The poor Negroes have got to live, too.”
— Huey Long, Huey Long as Governor
Tagged: Negroes, Equality, Care, Life
“The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.”
— Huey Long
Tagged: difference, Democracy, republican
“They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned.”
— Huey Long, Huey Long on conservative resistance to illiteracy programs for Negroes
Tagged: Ignorance, Equality, Learning
“We started them to school. They learned to read. They learned to work simple arithmetic problems. Now some of our plantation owners can't figure the poor devils out of everything at the close of each year.”
— Huey Long, Huey Long on African American Education
Tagged: School, Education, Learning, Reading
“I'm for the poor man — all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' — that's my slogan.”
— Huey Long
Tagged: poor, Poverty, Advocacy, Chance
“Whenever this administration has gone to the left I have voted for it, and whenever it has gone to the right I have voted against it.”
— Huey Long, Huey Long on the new deal.
Tagged: Left, Right, Administration, voting, Democide
“I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.”
— Huey Long
Tagged: Hitler, Jews, country, Prejudice
“For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.”
— Huey Long, Every Man A King: The Autobiography Of Huey P. Long
Tagged: present, king
“No man has ever been President of the United States more than two terms. You know that; everyone knows that. But when I get in, I'm going to abolish the Electoral College, have universal suffrage, and I defy any sonofabitch to get me out under four terms.”
— Huey Long, Response by Long during an interview with the journalist Forrest Davis
Tagged: Presidency, Election, Candidacy, Suffrage
“I wonder why he shot me.”
— Huey Long
Tagged: Wonder, Violence
“Mr. President, I am not undertaking to answer the charge that I am ignorant. It is true. I am an ignorant man. I have had no college education. I have not even had a high school education. But the things that takes me far in politics is that I do not have to color what comes into my mind and into my heart. I say it unvarnished. I say it without veneer. I have not the learning to do otherwise, and therefore my ignorance is often not detected.
I know the hearts of the People because I have not colored my own. I know when I am right in my own conscience. I do not talk one way in the cloakroom and another way out here. I do not talk one way back there in the hills of Louisiana and another way here in the Senate.
I have one language. Ignorant as it is, it is the universal language within the sphere in which I operate. Its simplicity gains pardon for my lack of letters and education.
Nonetheless my voice will be the same as it has been. Patronage will not change it. Fear will not change it. Persecution will not change it. It cannot be changed while people suffer. The only way it can be changed is to make the lives of these people decent and respectable. No one will ever hear political opposition out of me when that is done.”
— Huey Long, U.S. Senate floor speech, March 5, 1935
Tagged: Ignorance, Politics, Ideas, voice
“Where are the schools that you have waited for your children to have, that have never come? Where are the roads and the highways that you send your money to build, that are no nearer now than ever before? Where are the institutions to care for the sick and disabled? Evangeline wept bitter tears in her disappointment, but it lasted through only one lifetime. Your tears in this country, around this oak, have lasted for generations. Give me the chance to dry the eyes of those who still weep here!”
— Huey Long, Speech given during the 1928 gubernatorial election
Tagged: promises, Broken Promises, Chance, Care, Rehabilitate
“Education and training for all children to be equal in opportunity in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions of training in the professions and vocations in life; to be regulated on the capacity of children to learn, and not on the ability of parents to pay the costs. Training for life's work to be as much universal and thorough for all walks of life as has been the training in the arts of killing.”
— Huey Long
Tagged: Education, Training, Life
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