When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.
If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
This problem is not only in Mississippi. During the time I was in the Convention in Atlantic City, I didn't get any threats from Mississippi. The threatening letters were from Philadelphia, Chicago and other big cities.
When I liberate others, I liberate myself.
Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.
My mother got down sick in 53 and she lived with me, an invalid, until she passed away in 1961. And during the time she was staying with me sometime I would be worked so hard I couldn't sleep at night.