Medgar Evers Quotes

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• You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.
• I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been…
• Freedom has never been free... I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if…
• 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,…
• Our only hope is to control the...
• When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care.
• 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.…
• When a black Jacksonian looks about his home community, he sees a city of over 150,000, of which 40% is Negro, in which there is…
• Freedom has never been free.
• The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.
• Our only hope is to control the vote.
• 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…
• If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

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