Billy Sunday Quotes
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
Ellis, William T. “Billy” Sunday, the Man and His Message. John C. Winston Company, 1914, p. 138.
When he was booed by the crowd at an NAACP convention for his civil rights positions:
Before we had national prohibition, many Southern states and counties outlawed alcohol. “Wets” were those who wanted to allow drinking of alcohol. “Drys” were those who did not. The South was “dry” and voted overwhelmingly for national prohibition, and later voted to keep it even when a majority of the country voted to repeal it. The irony was that the South has always been, and still is, one of the highest alcohol consumption regions and has had much alcoholism. Hence Roger’s humor.
William Ashley Sunday was an American outfielder in baseball's National League and widely considered the most influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.