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Friday, July 4, 2008 12:00 AM

Jesse Helms dies on July 4th

Former Republican N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86.
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  • Friday, July 4, 2008 11:08 AM

    Some Helm's rotten morsels:

    "Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade-school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING and MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior."

    -- Fund raising mailer, 1996

    "Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches."

    -- 1995 radio broadcast

    "They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro."

    -- In response to Duke University students holding a vigil after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, 1968

    "All Latins are volatile people. Hence, I was not surprised at the volatile reaction."

    -- After Mexicans protested his visit in 1986

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