Look at the cost involved in the Martin Luther King holiday and the fact that we have not done it for a lot of other people that were more deserving. I just think it was basically wrong.

     — 1984, in an interview in Southern Partisan, a far-right magazine
  From the Dec. 23, 2002 issue of TIME Magazine. Posted Sunday, Dec. 15, 2002
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