Huey Long on conservative resistance to illiteracy programs for Negroes (Williams p.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. They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down.They've got to be cared for … The poor Negroes have got to live, too. Now, just a word about the poor Negroes … They're here.Huey Long on his Negro policy as President (Williams p.Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance.No one will ever hear political opposition out of me when that is done. The only way it can be changed is to make the lives of these people decent and respectable. It cannot be changed while people suffer. Nonetheless my voice will be the same as it has been. Its simplicity gains pardon for my lack of letters and education. Ignorant as it is, it is the universal language within the sphere in which I operate. I do not talk one way back there in the hills of Louisiana and another way here in the Senate. I do not talk one way in the cloakroom and another way out here. I know when I am right in my own conscience. I know the hearts of the People because I have not colored my own. I have not the learning to do otherwise, and therefore my ignorance is often not detected.

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 have not even had a high school education. President, I am not undertaking to answer the charge that I am ignorant. We're on the same road, but I'm here and he's there. I'm about one hundred yards ahead of him. The trouble is, Roosevelt hasn't taken all of my ideas just part of them.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.Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain fool. Written on banners used in the 1928 gubernatorial election quoted in Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970), p.Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.

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