Leonard Henry Courtney Quotes
The world revolves on its axis subject to the Constitution of the United States, and the most Radical newspaper man in London
Leonard Henry Courtney, 1832-1918, English Member of Parliament, President of the Royal Statistical Society, “To My Fellow-Disciples at Saratoga Springs”, The National Review, London, 1895
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Statement regarding the situation the Mormons encountered where the majority of the citizens in the areas that they inhabited were not only opposed to Mormonism but felt it moral to attack, harass and even murder Mormons. Because the bigots were in the majority, the politicians and officials were loath to protect the Mormons. In Mormon religious prophesy, before the Second Coming of Christ the Mormons must settle in Zion and the Jews in Israel. So the persecution preventing them from settling in Zion was the work of Satan to prevent Christ’s coming.
It was commonly asked of Blacks applying to register. There are few people who could give a cogent response to this. What made it terrible was that the white racist registrars had the unilateral authority to determine whether or not the oral response was adequate. Recording of responses were prohibited so that no Black who was disenfranchised could ever appeal when he/she was rejected. This is one of the thousands of techniques that were used throughout the South to prevent Negro voting. They were so egregious that Lyndon Johnson was abe to force through Southern filibusters The Voting Rights Act which has eliminated the worst of the racist restrictions on Black voting. As the worst of the racist white generation has died off, Southern discrimination in voting has lessened and the situation is better each year. By 2012 there were some who claimed that the law was no longer necessary do to changes in attitude and practice, but others worried that if there were no longer any forms of discrimination in voting, why some wanted to repeal the Voting Rights Act.
This is rarely discussed by journalists—namely that the Constitutions which gives them so much immunity and freedom from regulation, allows anyone to call him/herself a journalist, and there are no qualifications other than what individual organizations choose to impose. The same incidentally is true of politicians.
Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith PC was a radical British politician, and an academic, who became famous after being advocate of proportional representation in Parliament and acting as an opponent of imperialism and militarism.
