I've always found the rhetoric of mainstream civil rights leaders and organizations to be far too timid, accommodationist, and gradualist. It always seemed to me that they behaved like meek and gentle supplicants begging the oppressor for a few crumbs… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
My momma was slick as greased lightning. She knew how to get anybody and everybody to do whatever she wanted 'em to do. — James Meredith Copy Share Image
Nothing has been more detrimental to me than to be considered a symbol, because I never stood for any of that... The civil rights… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think theyll take care of me. — James Meredith Copy Share Image
I had developed a specifically calculated plan to break the system of white supremacy. My theory was that since Mississippi was the place, this… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
'Blacks were too scared to do anything, but they came out to greet James Meredith': That would have been the story in the evening… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year, confirming our… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
Only whites were allowed by law and practice to attend the University of Mississippi - a public institution supported by public dollars. Anything public… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
The real problem in Mississippi is almost a complete moral breakdown. In order to move Mississippi from the bottom to the top, all we… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
If black people use their resources properly, they can become as competitive as any group in society - take control of our neighborhoods, our… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
You gotta understand, the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the United States...Now that has been a very difficult story… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
I was taught to believe that the most dishonorable thing a Meredith could do was work in a white woman's kitchen and take care… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me. — James Meredith Copy Share Image
Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future. — James Meredith Copy Share Image
