Multiple Choice: Who said this racist statement?

Question

"In extreme cases there can be little doubt of the superiority of one race to another.... It seems on the whole fair to regard negroes as on the average inferior to white men, although for work in the tropics they are indispensible, so that their extermination (apart from questions of humanity) would be highly undesirable."

Pat Robertson
Adolf Hitler
Bertrand Russell
Pope Pious XII
Strom Thurmond
Abraham Lincoln

Answer 1

Bertrand Russell

Answer 2

Sadly, it was the Nobel Prize-winning champion of humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought, Bertrand Russell. He wrote that in his 1929 work _Marriage and Morals_, but he recanted in 1932, condemning the "unwarranted assumption" that "Negroes are congenitally inferior to white men" (_Education and the Social Order_, chapter 3).

Answer 3

George Wallace 1968

Answer 4

Wow a quotation taken out of context of both time and setting.

Try this in response to a question about 100 years ago as to, 'my dear fellow of what possible use is the ***** race?' in a club in London in the company of what would today be called the right of the Republican party, without wishing to give offence. (I'm not actually saying it was in that setting, but you get the point?)


http://allrss.com/wikipedia.php?title=Bertrand_Russell#Eugenics_and_race

Answer 5

Could it be Honest Abe? In his day teaching among the white population was hardly what one would call "enlightened" as regards races.

Answer 6

I am guessing Bertrand Russell

Answer 7

Likely Abraham Lincoln...just my thought. Think about his audience at the time, he'd have to choose his words very carefully.

Answer 8

I'm going to guess the pope.

Answer 9

I'm gonna guess Abe Lincoln???????

Answer 10

adolf h**ler