James Meredith Quotes
- There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.
- The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.
- My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made…
- Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
- When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult,
- Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.
- I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that…
- I noticed in the hallway a black janitor and I wondered why he was standing there. And he had a mop under his arm. And…
- Be equal in reality.
- 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 for…
- It is good to have one. It is long overdue.
- Walk Against Fear.
- It was an embarrassment for me to be there, and for somebody to celebrate it, oh my God. I want to go down in history,…