Quotes by Medgar Evers - Page 1

Freedom has never been free.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Freedom
Freedom Free Never
Free
Never
Been
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Our only hope is to control the vote.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Vote
Control
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You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Death
Men
Ideas
Man
You
Idea
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I may be going to Heaven or Hell, but I'll be going from Jackson.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Heaven
May
Jackson
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The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Citizens
Enjoyed
Gift From God
Mississippi
Should
Gifts
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If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Republicans
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I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Raised
Vote
Life My Life Born
Permitted
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Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Jobs
Concerned
Controlled
Militancy
Teachers
Rare
Except
Good Jobs
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When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Hate
People
Suffering
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I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Better Life
Children
Heart
Wife
Life Love Heart
Die
Life Love Wife
All My Heart
Gladly
Would
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We left the guns hidden in the car and tried walking into the polling place again, and the mob blocked us again. We didn't pursue it.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Car
Blocked
Left
Polling
Pursue
Guns
Hidden
Mob
Tried
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You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Education
Black
Educated
Poor
Subservient
Too
Designed
Discover
Exploited
Gets
Him
Whites
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Freedom has never been free... I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Children
Heart
Wife
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As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I'm going to work for it - even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Long
Real
Sacrifice
Ultimate
Ultimate Sacrifice
Try
God Work Strength
Gives
Means
Making
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It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Funny
Cattle
Land
May
Love Man May
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Choose
Day
Else
Some
Raise
Where
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I'll be damned if I'm going to let the white man lick me. There's something out here that I've got to do for my kids, and I'm not going to stop until I've done it.
Medgar Evers / Activist
White
Man Me White
Man Me Done
Lick
Out Here
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I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Car
America
Fighting
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I plan to live on campus in a dormitory and to do all the things any other student of the law school might do: use the library, eat in the dining hall, attend classes.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Campus
Dining
Law School
Library
Attend
Classes
Student
Hall
Plan
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Let me appeal to the consciences of many silent, responsible citizens of the white community who know that a victory for democracy in Jackson will be a victory for democracy everywhere.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Citizens
Community
Democracy
Silent
White
Everywhere
Appeal
Jackson
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First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: 'Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don't show up at the courthouse voting day.'
Medgar Evers / Activist
Voting
Always Your Day
Courthouse
Sons
Whites
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When a black Jacksonian looks about his home community, he sees a city of over 150,000, of which 40% is Negro, in which there is not a single Negro policeman or policewoman, school crossing guard, or fireman.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Home
Cities
School
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The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color and race.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Home
America
Better Place
Color
Country
Race
Years
Since
Everyone
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Make
Been
He
City
Part
State
Nation
Total
Else
Help
His
Place
Regardless
Wants
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I remember one of them - it was a 1941 black Ford. As it went by very slow, a guy leaned out with a shotgun, keeping a bead on us all the time, and we just had to walk slowly and wait for him to kill us... They didn't kill us, but they didn't end it, either.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Time Walk Remember
Ford
Wait
Slow
Shotgun
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As paradoxical as life would have it, some of these same persons who were beaten are terrorized by the Nazis are assisting the die-hards of the Citizens' Councils in bringing about economic pressure on Negroes who pay their poll taxes and register in Humphry County.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Assisting
Beaten
Citizens
County
Economic
Paradoxical
Persons
Pressure
Register
Bringing
Poll
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The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this is country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for better place for everyone, regardless of color and race.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Home
Country
Race
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The six of us gathered at my house, and we walked to the polls. I'll never forget it. Not a Negro was on the streets, and when we got to the courthouse, the clerk said he wanted to talk with us. When we got into his office, some 15 or 20 armed white men surged in behind us - men I had grown up with, had played with.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Forget
House
Never Forget
Office
Polls
Said
Six
Streets
Wanted
White
Talk
Armed
Played
Behind
Clerk
Courthouse
Gathered
Grown
Walked
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It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight the bass. There is room here for my children to play and grow, and become good citizens-if the white man will let them.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Men
Children
Fighting
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