Jesse Helms

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1921 age 0

   Born

2. 2003 age 82

   CreditThe Revolution Will Not Be Televised

3. 2008 age 86

   Died

• KBKim Bartley1 title
• DODonnacha O'Briain1 title
• HCHugo Chávez1 title
• PCPedro Carmona1 title

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  Photo:United States Senate, originally uploaded by Japan01Public domain

• To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing.

  Jesse Helms, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Compromise, hell! That's what happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?

  Jesse Helms, CC BY-SA 4.0

• White women in Washington who have been raped and mugged on the streets in broad daylight have experienced the most revolting sort of violation of their civil rights. The hundreds of others who had their purses snatched last year by Negro hoodlums may understandably insist that their right to walk the street unmolested was violated.

  Jesse Helms, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that’s thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men’s rights.

  Jesse Helms, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It is interesting to note that the Nobel Peace Prize won't be awarded this year. When one recalls that Martin Luther King got the prize last year, it may be just as well that the committee decided not to award one this year. Perhaps it was too difficult to choose between Stokely Carmichael and Ho Chi Minh.

  Jesse Helms, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Look carefully into the faces of the people participating. What you will see, for the most part, are dirty, unshaven, often crude young men and stringy-haired awkward young women who cannot attract attention any other way.

  Jesse Helms, CC BY-SA 4.0