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

We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.

[My mother] tried so hard to make life easy for us. Those are the things that forced me to try to do something different and when this Movement came to Mississippi I still feel it is one of the greatest things that ever happened because only a person living in the State of Mississippi knows what it is like to suffer; knows what it is like to be hungry; knows what it is like to have no clothing to wear.

White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that.