[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.

We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired.

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.

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.

My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up - 20 children: 6 girls and 14 boys, but still she taught us to be decent and to respect ourselves, and that is one of the things that has kept me going, even after she passed.

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

Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!