Thomas Dixon Jr.

thumb| Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was an American polymath: a Baptist minister, politician, lawyer, lecturer, writer, and filmmaker. Dixon wrote two best-selling novels, The Leopard's Spots (1902) and The Clansman (1905), that romanticized Southern white supremacy, endorsed the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, opposed equal rights for black people, and glorified the Ku Klux Klan as heroic vigilantes. Film director D. W. Griffith adapted The Clansman for the screen as The Birth of a Nation (1915). The film inspired the creators of the 20th-century rebirth of the Klan. Quotes Wealth and all its good things becomes with us at last habit. And habit is life. The Leopard's Spots (1902), bk. 2, ch. 22 Treason is an easy word to speak. A traitor is one who fights and loses. Washington was a traitor to George III. Treason won, and Washington is immortal. Treason is a word that victors hurl at those who fail. The Clansman (1905), bk. 1, ch. 4 External links Category:1864 births Category:1946 deaths Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Screenwriters from the United States Category:People from North Carolina Category:Baptists from the United States Category:Baptist ministers Category:White supremacists