Quote by Medgar Evers
When a black Jacksonian looks about his home community, he sees a

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 not a single Negro policeman or policewoman, school crossing guard, or fireman. – Medgar Evers

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In the racial picture things will never be as they once were. History has reached a turning point, here and over the world. – Medgar Evers

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If we dont like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it. – Medgar Evers

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I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. – Woody Allen, on the Ku Klux Klan

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I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger. – Muhammad Ali, 1967, refusing to fight in Vietnam

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Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at Gods great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face,
tho they come from the ends of the earth! – Rudyard Kipling

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I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo. – Frantz Fanon

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