People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.

I think there will be great leaders emerging from the State of Mississippi. The people that have the experience to know and the people not interested in letting somebody pat you on the back and tell us "I think it is right." And it is very important for us not to accept a compromise and after I got back to Mississippi, people there said it was the most important step that had been taken.

You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

This problem is not only in Mississippi. During the time I was in the Convention in Atlantic City, I didn't get any threats from Mississippi. The threatening letters were from Philadelphia, Chicago and other big cities.

Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people changed their names my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?