'This so-called Civil Rights Proposals, which the President has sent to Capitol Hill for enactment into law, are unconstitutional, unnecessary, unwise and extend beyond the realm of reason. This is the worst Civil Rights package ever presented to the Congress and is reminiscent of the Reconstruction proposals and actions of the radical Republican Congress.'
-South Carolina Democrat Senator Strom Thurmond on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that was supported by 80% of the Republican House members, and 82% of the Republican Senate members.
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