Niger Innis quotes

Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming. (Niger Innis)
After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms. View quote
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People are familiar with 'the stick' of the Tea Party... challenging incumbents, flooding the phone lines. What they're not so much familiar with, and what I want to expand, is 'the carrot.' So when a Mitch McConnell, or when a Republican caucus stands firm... we have to reward them. View quote
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There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with border security. We are a land of immigrants. Immigration, with assimilation, has generally been good for America. View quote
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Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites. View quote
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For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized. View quote
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I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party. View quote
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Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism, is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans. View quote
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The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.' View quote
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When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery. View quote
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Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism. (Niger Innis)
One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun. View quote
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[W]e must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of he nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people. View quote
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Niger Innis

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Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: American Activist
Born: 1968
Quotes count: 13