Quotes About Medgar Evers

#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. You need to make the right decision - firmly and decisively - and then stick with it with God's help.

Billy Graham

#3. I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

Will Smith

#4. 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

#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.

Medgar Evers

#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. There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.

Robertson Davies

#9. Freedom has never been free.

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#10. I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.

Ralph Keyes

#11. He wanted to be in the world and take what came with it, endings local and universal, full stops, periods, looks of injured disappointment and the everyday war. He liked the everyday war. He was taking that with fries. To go.

Zadie Smith

#12. 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

#13. I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.

Kesha

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

Medgar Evers

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

Charles Evers

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

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

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#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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