Our only hope is to control the vote. - Medgar Evers

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We left the guns hidden in the car and tried walking into the polling place again, and the mob blocked us again. We didn't pursue it. - Medgar Evers

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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. - Medgar Evers

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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.' - Medgar Evers

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

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Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes. - Medgar Evers

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Freedom has never been free. - Medgar Evers

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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. - Medgar Evers

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You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea. - Medgar Evers

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It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day. - Medgar Evers

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