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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I'm showing the people that a Negro can run for office.

What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no longer ignore the fact that America is not the... land of the free and the home of the brave.

There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.

Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America?

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

Why should I leave Ruleville, and why should I leave Mississippi? I go to the big city, and with the kind of education they give us in Mississippi, I got problems. I'd wind up in a soup line there.

That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them.

They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.

One day, I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change - not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world.

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