Medgar Evers Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.

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#3. You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

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#4. 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.

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#5. If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

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#6. Our only hope is to control the vote.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Freedom has never been free.

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#9. Our only hope is to control the ...

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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