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First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: ‘Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don’t show up at the courthouse voting day.’

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Medgar Evers

Except for teachers, who are ‘controlled’ as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.

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Medgar Evers

I plan to live on campus in a dormitory and to do all the things any other student of the law school might do: use the library, eat in the dining hall, attend classes.

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I remember one of them – it was a 1941 black Ford. As it went by very slow, a guy leaned out with a shotgun, keeping a bead on us all the time, and we just had to walk slowly and wait for him to kill us… They didn’t kill us, but they didn’t end it, either.

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Let me appeal to the consciences of many silent, responsible citizens of the white community who know that a victory for democracy in Jackson will be a victory for democracy everywhere.

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I’ll be damned if I’m going to let the white man lick me. There’s something out here that I’ve got to do for my kids, and I’m not going to stop until I’ve done it.

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If we don’t like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

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As paradoxical as life would have it, some of these same persons who were beaten are terrorized by the Nazis are assisting the die-hards of the Citizens’ Councils in bringing about economic pressure on Negroes who pay their poll taxes and register in Humphry County.

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Medgar Evers

The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.

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I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.

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I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.

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I may be going to Heaven or Hell, but I’ll be going from Jackson.

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