klan

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1. klan - Noun

2. Klan - Proper noun

Meaning

a secret society of white Southerners in the United States; was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves; used terrorist tactics to suppress Black people

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Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan. Che Guevara

We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down. Rosa Parks

The Democrats are the party of the Ku Klux Klan. You look at the most racist - you look at the Dixiecrats, they were Democrats who imposed segregation, imposed Jim Crow laws, who founded the Klan. The Klan was founded by a great many Democrats. Ted Cruz

The Klu Klux Klan and the racial segregation that was so dramatically challenged during the mid-twentieth century freedom movement was produced not during slavery but rather in an attempt to manage free black people who would have been far more successful in pushing forward democracy for all. Angela Davis

We cannot be a party that nominates someone who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan. Marco Rubio

Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures. Andres Serrano

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