What is another word for Ku Klux Klan?

Pronunciation: [kˈuː klˈʌks klˈan] (IPA)

The Ku Klux Klan, also known as the KKK, is a white supremacist hate group that has been active in the United States for over a century. The KKK has been responsible for numerous hate crimes, including lynchings, bombings, and murders of African Americans, Jews, and other minorities. Because of their heinous actions, many people have come up with alternative names for this group, such as the knights of the invisible empire, the friendliest order, and the invisible empire of the south. While these names may sound less offensive, they still refer to the same hate group that promotes racism and intolerance, and their actions should not be ignored or forgotten.

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Famous quotes with Ku klux klan

  • 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
  • I had explained that 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
  • I ran into Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things made me decide not to build on the Alabama coast, so we came back to Memphis.
    Shelby Foote
  • if History or Progress or 'change' is to be our guide, if the truth of relativism is to replace the truth of the Declaration, then the cause for which the nation fought at its birth, and in the Civil War, was meaningless, too. White power, black power, the Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, are as justifiable as Jefferson, Lincoln, or the doctrine of the equal natural rights of all human beings
    Harry V. Jaffa
  • The executive branch has sometimes abused its mandate -- most famously, with the surveillance of Dr. King -- but not as much as the Church Committee would have us believe. The FBI's political spying was not the creation of right-wing reactionaries, and it was not systematically targeted at the innocent grassroots left. It was begun by our most liberal of presidents, FDR, who ordered the surveillance of fascist sympathizers in 1936. The most controversial domestic Counterinteligence Programs (Cointelpro) were actually born in the Kennedy administration, as an attempt to disrupt the Ku Klux Klan. The FBI also disrupted "Black Nationalist Hate Groups," including the Black Panthers. This was not political repression; it was a largely successful effort to deal with violent militant groups.
    Mark Riebling

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