Ku Klux Klan/first Klan 1865-1874/creation and Naming

Famous quotes containing the words klux, creation and/or naming:

    “A woman’s asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person’s demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.”
    —Mary Daly (b. 1928)

    “Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. The shadows of poverty and meanness gather around us, “and lo! creation widens to our view.””
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The night is itself sleep
    And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
    Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)