You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too. - Medgar Evers

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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. - 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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The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color and race. - Medgar Evers

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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. - Medgar Evers

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Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.- Donald Trump

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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. - Medgar Evers

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. ― John Wooden

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

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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. -Jackie Robinson

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