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

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

if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

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

[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.

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

[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.