Medgar Quotes

#1. I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.

Iyanla Vanzant

#2. The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin.

Charles Evers

#3. 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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#4. Good. Evil. They're just words.

Lauren Kate

#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. Our only hope is to control the ...

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#8. Freedom has never been free.

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#9. Within these margins I find my serenity - with a blank page and a pencil, I am set free.

Jordyn McKenzie

#10. It taught him how to listen
how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

Hermann Hesse

#11. 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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#12. Our only hope is to control the vote.

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

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#14. 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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#15. What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.

K.A. Applegate

#16. It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Isaac Asimov

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

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#18. It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black.

Neil Gaiman

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

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#20. 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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