Righteousness Exalts A Nation. Hate Just Makes

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.

I Always Said If I Lived To Get Grown And Had A Chance, I Was Going To Try To Get Something For My Mother And I Was Going To Do Something For The Black Man Of The South If It Would Cost My Life; I Was Determined To See That Things Were Changed.

Just Because People Are Fat, It Doesn't Mean They Are Well Fed. The Cheapest Foods Are The Fattening Ones, Not The Most Nourishing.

We Have To Build Our Own Power. We Have To Win Every Single Political Office We Can, Where We Have A Majority Of Black People... The Question For Black People Is Not, When Is The White Man Going To Give Us Our Rights, Or When Is He Going To Give Us Good Education For Our Children, Or When Is He Going To Give Us Jobs-if The White Man Gives You Anything-just Remember When He Gets Ready He Will Take It Right Back. We Have To Take For Ourselves.

I Think There Will Be Great Leaders Emerging From The State Of Mississippi. The People That Have The Experience To Know And The People Not Interested In Letting Somebody Pat You On The Back And Tell Us "i Think It Is Right." And It Is Very Important For Us Not To Accept A Compromise And After I Got Back To Mississippi, People There Said It Was The Most Important Step That Had Been Taken.