Quote#Wisdom
[Reconstruction was detestable] not because the Republican Party was…
Quote byWoodrow Wilson · 1856–1924
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 1920s and later, As quoted in Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism, Ronald J. Pestritto, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005, p. 45. Came from Wilson’s marginal notes on one of his manuscripts..
English (original)
[Reconstruction was detestable] not because the Republican Party was dreaded but because the dominance of an ignorant and inferior race was justly dreaded.
— Woodrow Wilson
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