David M. Shoup Quotes
To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.
Shoup, David M. "Remarks to Staff, Headquarters Marine Corps." 4 Jan. 1960. Qtd. in Heinl, Robert Debs, Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations, United States Naval Institute, 1966, p. 157.
He was describing his first face to face encounter with Southern Negro slaves. He was totally shocked as the Negroes he had seen before were mostly free Blacks in the North-—many of whom were educated and cultured. He became an even more avowed abolitionist but like most anti-slavery whites at the time did not see the majority of Blacks as equal. See Abraham Lincoln: {587773}.
David Monroe Shoup was a general of the United States Marine Corps who was awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II, served as the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps, and, after retiring, became one of the most prominent critics of the Vietnam War.
