Alabama governor George Wallace is famous for a quote from his inaugural address: "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."

And that, folks, is just the tip of the racist, racist iceberg.

In 1958, Wallace lost a campaign for governor to a candidate that had been supported by the Ku Klux Klan, a militant white power group. After that happened, he ramped up his segregationist rhetoric. That did the trick. He became governor in 1962 and promised to "stand in the schoolhouse door" to prevent integration of African American and white students. (Source)

Oh yeah—this guy was a gem…if but "gem" we mean "bigoted tub of gray mayonnaise."

Martin Luther King, Jr. gave Wallace a shout-out in his "I Have a Dream" speech, because you don't address 200,000 people about the problem of racism in America without mentioning the #1 Racist In America. He referred to Alabama's "vicious racists" (16.1) and then said the governor's lips were "dripping" (16.1) with segregationist rhetoric.

You tell 'em, MLK.