Now, I’m not here to preach the Gospel. These…There are ministers here do that. But let me tell you something, women: it’s a disgrace to the world. See her with…When I get statistics from the government, shows that eighty percent of the babies that’s born has to be raised on cows milk. If they nurse from their mother, they’d die within eighteen months on account of nicotine poison. Communists, fifth columnists? Listen, brother, don’t you fear about Russia coming over here and doing anything, or Germany, or any other nation. It’s our own rottenness that’s killing us. It ain’t the robin that pecks on the apple that hurts the apple; it’s the worm at the core that kills the apples. We’re becoming so demoralized till no wonder we’re breaking. We’re breaking ourselves. All right, so much for that.

Life Story, 1953-11-08, Owensboro, KY, §40