Which statement from Governor George Wallace's inaugural address best supports his claim that Southerners are the founders of th
e American way of life? Hear me, Southerners! You sons and daughters who have moved north and west throughout this nation . . . we call on you from your native soil to join with us in national support.
The great writer, Rudyard Kipling, wrote of them, that: "There in the Southland of the United States of America, lives the greatest fighting breed of man . . . in all the world!"
Southerners played a most magnificent part in erecting this great divinely inspired system of freedom . . . and as God is our witness, Southerners will save it.
Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South.
The correct answer is I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny...and I say... segregation today...segregation tomorrow...segregation forever.
This speech, given by Wallace in 1963, was focused on the continued segregation of white and black citizens within his state of Alabama. As governor of Alabama, Wallace promised he would do everything he could to keep the races separated. One example of this was the stand he took in front of the admissions office at the University of Alabama when two black students tried to enroll at this college. Up until this time, no black student had ever attended the University of Alabam. His goal was to keep it that way. However, his plans did not go well as the federal government intervened and ensured the two black students were enrolled into this university.
C. Southerners played a most magnificent part in erecting this great divinely inspired system of freedom . . . and as God is our witness, Southerners will save it.
