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This is a collaborative post. I wrote three quotes I found shocking. I'm hoping you can help me grow this list. Add your suggestions in the comments below and I will add them in this post.
- Harry Truman - In 1911, the year he turned 27, Truman wrote to his future wife, Bess: "I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's honest and decent and not a nigger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a white man from dust, a nigger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman."
- John McCain - During the 2004 presidential election, Sen. John McCain told a group of reporters on his campaign bus, "I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live."
- William J. Bennett - The former U.S. education secretary said "if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose -- you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down."