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It's time for America to get right.
Nobody's free until everybody's free.
A black woman's body was never hers alone.
When I liberate others, I liberate myself.
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.
I'm showing the people that a Negro can run for office.
Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.
You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.
We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired.
Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.
I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.
If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.
Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.
Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.
Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.
To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice.
I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.
That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them.
If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.
I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that.
There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.
Actually, the world and America is upset and the only way to bring about a change is to upset it more.
We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!
You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.
When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.
On the 10th of September 1962, sixteen bullets was fired into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tucker for me.
You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.
I see so many ways America uses to rob Negroes and it is sinful and America can't keep holding on, and doing these things.
I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life.
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.
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.
just because people are fat, it doesn't mean they are well fed. The cheapest foods are the fattening ones, not the most nourishing.
I was treated much better in Africa than I was treated in America. And you see, often I get letters like this: "Go back to Africa."
A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.
Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!
I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known on the house tops."
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.
I would like to talk about some of the things that happened that made me know that there was something wrong in the south from a child.
[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.
This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.
That's why I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known on the house tops."
The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder.
I was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn't go back and withdraw, you know, my literacy test after I had tried to take it. I wouldn't go back.
It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.
We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than we’d gotten here. We didn't come all this way for no two seats, 'cause all of us is tired.
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.
The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. People have been put in the river year after year, these things been happening.
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.