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.

To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice.

I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.

When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?

My parents would make huge crops of sometimes 55 to 60 bales of cotton. Being from a big family where there were 20 children, it wasn't too hard to pick that much cotton. But my father, year after year, didn't get too much money and I remember he just kept going.

I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].