I'm less sure than you that his words ring true. But I definitely understand who he was, also.

“How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?”

“I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.”

"This country was founded by a group of slave owners who wanted to be free! So they killed a lot of white English people in order to continue owning their black African people, so they could wipe out the rest of the red Indian people, in order to move west and steal the rest of the land from the brown Mexican people, giving them a place to take off and drop their nuclear weapons on the yellow Japanese people. You know what the motto for this country ought to be? 'You give us a color, we'll wipe it out.'"