If I Am Truly Free, Who Can

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.

[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.

A White Man Killed The Mules And Our Cows That Knocked Us Right Back Down. And Things Got So Tough Then I Began To Wish I Was White.

I Do Remember, One Time, A Man Came To Me After The Students Began To Work In Mississippi And He Said The White People Were Getting Tired And They Were Getting Tense And Anything Might Happen. Well, I Asked Him "how Long He Thinks We Had Been Getting Tired"? I Have Been Tired For 46 Years And My Parents Was Tired Before Me And Their Parents Were Tired, And I Have Always Wanted To Do Something That Would Help Some Of The Things I Would See Going On Among Negroes That I Didn't Like And I Don't Like Now.

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.