George Wallace continues his political career after bullet left him paralyzed

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"George Corley Wallace Jr. (…) was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, a position he occupied for four terms . . . He sought the United States presidency as a Democrat three times . . . He is best remembered for his staunch segregationist and populist views. Wallace famously opposed desegregation and supported the policies of "Jim Crow" during the Civil Rights Movement, declaring in his 1963 Inaugural Address that he stood for 'segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever'. Democratic presidential primaries of 1972 and assassination attempt . . . Wallace was hit in the abdomen and chest, and one of the bullets lodged in Wallace's spinal column, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of his life. . . . . In the late 1970s, Wallace announced that he was a born-again Christian and apologized to black civil rights leaders for his past actions as a segregationist. He said that while he had once sought power and glory, he realized he needed to seek love and forgiveness. In 1979, Wallace said of his stand in the schoolhouse door: 'I was wrong. Those days are over, and they ought to be over.' He publicly asked for forgiveness from blacks." [Wikipedia]