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 am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.

This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.

One of the things I remember as a child: There was a man named Joe Pulliam. He was a great Christian man; but one time, he was living with a white family and this white family robbed him of what he earned. They didn't pay him anything. This white man gave him $150 to go to the hill, (you see, I lived in the Black Belt of Mississippi)... to get another Negro family. Joe Pulliam knew what this white man had been doing to him so he kept the $150 and didn't go.

It would bring tears in your eyes to make you think of all those years, the type of brain-washing that this man will use in America to keep us separated from our own people.

To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice.

I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life.