I would like to talk about some of the things that happened that made me know that there was something wrong in the south from a child.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

You know the Scripture says "be not deceived for God is not mocked; whatsoever a man sow that shall he also reap." And one day, I don't know how they're going to get it, but they're going to get some of it back. They are scared to death and are more afraid now than we are.

You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.

My mother got down sick in 53 and she lived with me, an invalid, until she passed away in 1961. And during the time she was staying with me sometime I would be worked so hard I couldn't sleep at night.

Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.

I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known on the house tops."