Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party Quotes
Dinesh D'Souza: [deleted scene]I want to name some people who have been involved in America's racial history, and I'd like you to tell me simply if they were Republicans or Democrats.
Carol Swain: Okay.
Dinesh D'Souza: Let's begin with the inventor of the Positive Good school of slavery, the idea that slavery was a good thing: Senator John C. Calhoun.
Carol Swain: Democrat.
Dinesh D'Souza: What about the guy who invented popular sovereignty, the idea that each state could decide for itself if it wanted slavery, yes or not: Stephen Douglas?
Carol Swain: Democrat.
Dinesh D'Souza: What about the writer of the Dred Scott decision, authorizing slavery and claiming that blacks have no rights that a white man ought to respect? Roger Tawney.
Carol Swain: That sounds like a Democrat.
Dinesh D'Souza: What about the founder of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest who was also a confederate general?
Carol Swain: Democrat.
Dinesh D'Souza: What about the great champions of segregation, the people who legislated 'separate but equal' and the Black Codes throughout the south?
Carol Swain: Democrat.
Dinesh D'Souza: What about Bull Connor, the famous or infamous sheriff who resisted the Civil Rights movement?
Carol Swain: Democrat.
Dinesh D'Souza: What about Arkansas governor, Orville Faubus, who shut the doors of the Arkansas schoolhouse, until federal troops had to come in to allow black students to get in the door?
Carol Swain: Democrat.
Dinesh D'Souza: What about George Wallace who said 'segregation now, segregation forever'?
Carol Swain: Democrat. They're all Democrats.
Dinesh D'Souza: Let's now talk about a few more figures in American history who resisted
Carol Swain: Okay.
Dinesh D'Souza: Let's begin with the inventor of the Positive Good school of slavery, the idea that slavery was a good thing: Senator John C. Calhoun.
Carol Swain: Democrat.
Dinesh D'Souza: What about the guy who invented popular sovereignty, the idea that each state could decide for itself if it wanted slavery, yes or not: Stephen Douglas?
Carol Swain: Democrat.
Dinesh D'Souza: What about the writer of the Dred Scott decision, authorizing slavery and claiming that blacks have no rights that a white man ought to respect? Roger Tawney.
Carol Swain: That sounds like a Democrat.
Dinesh D'Souza: What about the founder of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest who was also a confederate general?
Carol Swain: Democrat.
Dinesh D'Souza: What about the great champions of segregation, the people who legislated 'separate but equal' and the Black Codes throughout the south?
Carol Swain: Democrat.
Dinesh D'Souza: What about Bull Connor, the famous or infamous sheriff who resisted the Civil Rights movement?
Carol Swain: Democrat.
Dinesh D'Souza: What about Arkansas governor, Orville Faubus, who shut the doors of the Arkansas schoolhouse, until federal troops had to come in to allow black students to get in the door?
Carol Swain: Democrat.
Dinesh D'Souza: What about George Wallace who said 'segregation now, segregation forever'?
Carol Swain: Democrat. They're all Democrats.
Dinesh D'Souza: Let's now talk about a few more figures in American history who resisted
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One of two unspecified governors on Air Force One: Why do you want these War on Poverty and Great Society programs so much?
President Lyndon B. Johnson: I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years. [re: Inside the White House by Ronald Kessler, p.33]
President Lyndon B. Johnson: I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years. [re: Inside the White House by Ronald Kessler, p.33]
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Dinesh D'Souza: Why were blacks such a threat to the Democratic party?
Carol Swain: Blacks were the majority in several southern states. They were able to send numerous people to the states' legislatures. They had 22 members elected to Congress. So this was a nightmare for the Democrats because all of sudden, they were being ruled by black Republicans and they reacted with brutality. The party had its own war machine and its target were blacks and white Republicans.
Carol Swain: Blacks were the majority in several southern states. They were able to send numerous people to the states' legislatures. They had 22 members elected to Congress. So this was a nightmare for the Democrats because all of sudden, they were being ruled by black Republicans and they reacted with brutality. The party had its own war machine and its target were blacks and white Republicans.
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Carol Swain: One heroine from that era was a black journalist named Ida B. Wells. Long before Rose Parks refused to sit in the backseat of a bus, Ida B. Wells refused to give up her first class train seat to a white man. The reason we don't hear more about this is because Ida B. Wells was a Republican. She worked for a Republican paper that denounced lynching.
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Margaret Sanger: Eugenics means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination, and eventual extirpation of those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization. The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members, is to kill it.
Dinesh D'Souza: [narration]By Sanger's time, techniques of racial elimination like lynching had become taboo within the Democratic party, and so Sanger pioneered a different approach to bring about a similar result. [to Jonah Goldberg]
Dinesh D'Souza: How would you describe Sanger's so called 'Negro project'?
Jonah Goldberg: The Negro project was to bring these birth control and other eugenic methods into the black community. She hired black ministers expressly to sell the idea.
Margaret Sanger: We don't want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. A minister is the man to straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to their more rebellious members.
Dinesh D'Souza: Surely today's Democratic party leaders would repudiate Margaret Sanger.
Hillary Clinton (archive footage): I admire Margaret Sanger enormously. I am really in awe of her, and there are a lot of lessons that we can learn from her life and from the cause she launched and fought for and sacrificed for so bravely.
Dinesh D'Souza: [narration]By Sanger's time, techniques of racial elimination like lynching had become taboo within the Democratic party, and so Sanger pioneered a different approach to bring about a similar result. [to Jonah Goldberg]
Dinesh D'Souza: How would you describe Sanger's so called 'Negro project'?
Jonah Goldberg: The Negro project was to bring these birth control and other eugenic methods into the black community. She hired black ministers expressly to sell the idea.
Margaret Sanger: We don't want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. A minister is the man to straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to their more rebellious members.
Dinesh D'Souza: Surely today's Democratic party leaders would repudiate Margaret Sanger.
Hillary Clinton (archive footage): I admire Margaret Sanger enormously. I am really in awe of her, and there are a lot of lessons that we can learn from her life and from the cause she launched and fought for and sacrificed for so bravely.
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Dinesh D'Souza: [about Ida B. Wells]She made the remarkable statement that what blacks actually needed was Second Amendment rights.
Carol Swain: Throughout the south when they passed the Black Codes, they put in provisions that if you were black, you couldn't own a gun. So that means that the KKK rises up into your yard, you don't have anything to defend yourself with. So the Second Amendment was very important to blacks. It was something that she championed because she knew as long as they were unarmed, they would be prey to white racists.
Dinesh D'Souza: You're saying that early Democrat efforts to have gun control had a racist motive?
Carol Swain: Yes, almost everything they did had a racist motive.
Carol Swain: Throughout the south when they passed the Black Codes, they put in provisions that if you were black, you couldn't own a gun. So that means that the KKK rises up into your yard, you don't have anything to defend yourself with. So the Second Amendment was very important to blacks. It was something that she championed because she knew as long as they were unarmed, they would be prey to white racists.
Dinesh D'Souza: You're saying that early Democrat efforts to have gun control had a racist motive?
Carol Swain: Yes, almost everything they did had a racist motive.
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Planned Parenthood (phone): Hello, this is Sue, may I help you?
Donor (phone): Hi, Sue, I'm interested in making a donation. Could I specify that abortion be done, uh... that abortions be done for a particular minority group?
Planned Parenthood (phone): If you wish, you can.
Donor (phone): Okay, so for example, the black community in Tulsa, the abortions will be done specifically for black abortions.
Planned Parenthood (phone): Great.
Alveda King: Today, the vast majority of Planned Parenthood clinics are located in our neighborhoods. We were tricked through a slick marketing campaign, but now that that's unraveled, people are saying Wait a minute, they sell baby parts? What happened to *my* baby?
Hillary Clinton (archive footage): Standing up and fighting for progressive values!
Donor (phone): Hi, Sue, I'm interested in making a donation. Could I specify that abortion be done, uh... that abortions be done for a particular minority group?
Planned Parenthood (phone): If you wish, you can.
Donor (phone): Okay, so for example, the black community in Tulsa, the abortions will be done specifically for black abortions.
Planned Parenthood (phone): Great.
Alveda King: Today, the vast majority of Planned Parenthood clinics are located in our neighborhoods. We were tricked through a slick marketing campaign, but now that that's unraveled, people are saying Wait a minute, they sell baby parts? What happened to *my* baby?
Hillary Clinton (archive footage): Standing up and fighting for progressive values!
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Dinesh D'Souza: What happened to Carrie Buck?
Jonah Goldberg: Carrie Buck is a tragic and really important story. Carrie Buck is this young woman who was supposed to be quote unquote 'feeble minded'. They wanted to forcibly sterilize her. Her case went all the way up to the Supreme Court.
Carrie Buck: [screaming as she's wheeled in strapped to a gurney]Help me! No!
Doctor: Miss. [puts his hand on her]
Carrie Buck: DON'T TOUCH ME!
Doctor: Miss! MISS! You need to CALM down! I need assistance!
Jonah Goldberg: Oliver Wendel Holmes said that it's okay to forcibly sterilize this young woman, who was not feeble minded, she read, she was perfectly competent, certainly didn't deserve to be forcibly sterilized. And he says in this famous damning line in his opinion, '3 generations of imbeciles is enough!'
Carrie Buck: [pinned down on the operating table]NOOOOOO!
Jonah Goldberg: Forcibly sterilized back in those days meant something. It meant holding this woman down, doing these terrible things to her through the power of the state simply because the state had this idea of what the population should look like and who should have the right to have children. Tens of thousands of people across the United States were sterilized.
Jonah Goldberg: Carrie Buck is a tragic and really important story. Carrie Buck is this young woman who was supposed to be quote unquote 'feeble minded'. They wanted to forcibly sterilize her. Her case went all the way up to the Supreme Court.
Carrie Buck: [screaming as she's wheeled in strapped to a gurney]Help me! No!
Doctor: Miss. [puts his hand on her]
Carrie Buck: DON'T TOUCH ME!
Doctor: Miss! MISS! You need to CALM down! I need assistance!
Jonah Goldberg: Oliver Wendel Holmes said that it's okay to forcibly sterilize this young woman, who was not feeble minded, she read, she was perfectly competent, certainly didn't deserve to be forcibly sterilized. And he says in this famous damning line in his opinion, '3 generations of imbeciles is enough!'
Carrie Buck: [pinned down on the operating table]NOOOOOO!
Jonah Goldberg: Forcibly sterilized back in those days meant something. It meant holding this woman down, doing these terrible things to her through the power of the state simply because the state had this idea of what the population should look like and who should have the right to have children. Tens of thousands of people across the United States were sterilized.
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Jonah Goldberg: The opening of the Democratic convention in 2012, Government is the one thing we all belong to. No, government belongs to us, we don't belong to it, we are citizens, not subjects. You remember the Life of Julia ad the Obama administration put out? Every frame begins with the words 'Under President Obama', Julia gets this kind of scholarship and this kind of loan and this kind of promised job. The creepiest sentence in modern political history was when The Life of Julia ad says Under President Obama, Julia decides to have a child. Nowhere in this do you see Julia's family, there're no parents, there's no husband, there're no friends, it's just the state as personified by Barack Obama: community, churches, synagogues, family, friends, mediating institutions as the social scientists call them, that give us a sense of order and place in the world. That's what the world of the state has planned. And it was completely contrary to the ideas of the founding of this country, the classic liberal ideas of the founding of this country: the fruits of your labor belong to you, our rights come from God, not government, we are citizens, not subjects.
Dinesh D'Souza: The progressive-ism is actually progress away from the founding.
Jonah Goldberg: Yeah, that's right.
Dinesh D'Souza: The progressive-ism is actually progress away from the founding.
Jonah Goldberg: Yeah, that's right.
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Carol Swain: It's not every day I get a political prisoner in my office.
Dinesh D'Souza: For me, Carol, it's so strange because I've just seen a whole different America than I'm used to.
Carol Swain: Well you know, blacks have been used to oppression in America, and some of it has come from the Democratic party. And it's been hard for me to accept because I was a Democrat for most of my life.
Dinesh D'Souza: What made you change?
Carol Swain: It was a number of different things. Some of it had to do with becoming a Christian, and the other part had to do with me learning more about the history of the Democratic party and just seeing how they used blacks for their agenda.
Dinesh D'Souza: Carol, tell us a little about your life. You seem to be, your life has been a real success story.
Carol Swain: It is, and I believe so much in the American dream. I was one of 12 children born in the rural south in Virginia, my father had a 3rd grade education, my mother was a high school dropout, and they divorced, and so I had a stepfather, all of us dropped out of school after the 8th grade. I married at 16, had my first child at 17, and you know, according to sociological theories, I should've been on welfare, I should not have had a future. But I ended up getting a high school equivalency, going to community college and earning the first of five degrees. I became a tenure professor at Princeton, and then I was hired by Vanderbilt during a time when I was going through a religious type of transition. But when Vanderbilt hired me, they thought they were getting this hotshot Princeton professor, and they got someone who was a born again Christian, and it's been interesting ever since.
Dinesh D'Souza: For me, Carol, it's so strange because I've just seen a whole different America than I'm used to.
Carol Swain: Well you know, blacks have been used to oppression in America, and some of it has come from the Democratic party. And it's been hard for me to accept because I was a Democrat for most of my life.
Dinesh D'Souza: What made you change?
Carol Swain: It was a number of different things. Some of it had to do with becoming a Christian, and the other part had to do with me learning more about the history of the Democratic party and just seeing how they used blacks for their agenda.
Dinesh D'Souza: Carol, tell us a little about your life. You seem to be, your life has been a real success story.
Carol Swain: It is, and I believe so much in the American dream. I was one of 12 children born in the rural south in Virginia, my father had a 3rd grade education, my mother was a high school dropout, and they divorced, and so I had a stepfather, all of us dropped out of school after the 8th grade. I married at 16, had my first child at 17, and you know, according to sociological theories, I should've been on welfare, I should not have had a future. But I ended up getting a high school equivalency, going to community college and earning the first of five degrees. I became a tenure professor at Princeton, and then I was hired by Vanderbilt during a time when I was going through a religious type of transition. But when Vanderbilt hired me, they thought they were getting this hotshot Princeton professor, and they got someone who was a born again Christian, and it's been interesting ever since.
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Ida B. Wells: [speaking of Henry Smith's lynching]The lesson this teaches, which every Negro should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home!
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