Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength.

I see so many ways America uses to rob Negroes and it is sinful and America can't keep holding on, and doing these things.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

We serve God by serving our fellow man; kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you are a Christian, we are tired of being mistreated.

These people in Mississippi State, they are not "down"; all they need is a chance. And I am determined to give my part not for what the Movement can do for me, but what I can do for the Movement to bring about a change in the State of Mississippi.

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