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Ku Klux Klan

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1. Ku Klux Klan - Noun

2. Ku Klux 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

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

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

A Ku Klux Klan member would be mortified to learn that he was actually a Black man. Many people's reaction to learning that they are actually animals, or actually apes, is the same. Steve Stewart-Williams

Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the car to watch them. She wanted us to know those things existed. Nicole Beharie

One should not underestimate the power of persuasion by well-crafted propaganda films. D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation in 1915 helped to resurrect Ku Klux Klan in Georgia; and Leni Riefenstahl's award-winning Triumph of the Will in 1935 helped fuel the rise of Nazism in Germany. Newton Lee

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