James Meredith Quotes

#1. There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.

James Meredith

#2. My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

James Meredith

#3. I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen.

James Meredith

#4. The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.

James Meredith

#5. When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult,

James Meredith

#6. Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

James Meredith

#7. Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.

James Meredith