st saw the acts as terroristic. Even today some traditionalist say the Klansmen were "knights" in shining armor who protected white rights and fought off the submission of radical authority. The fact is that the Ku Klux Klan was a terrorist organization who committed heinous acts upon the blacks and Republicans. Ku Klux Klan actions are unjustifiable because they were "against the Negro as a citizen-one attempting to be a voter and at times, the social equal of other men-rather than against the Negro as a violator of law or the infringer upon the rights of other men." But quite often people have deep prejudices that overcome any rational moral choice. Southerners felt a deep contempt for foreign rule, and blacks were though to be scientifically inferior. William M. Lawton, a former slave plantation owner said, "The common sense creed, of the low down and inferior organic nature of the
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