- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
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, and I'm going to do it some day.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom has never been free.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our only hope is to control the vote.
- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good Jobs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gathered
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- Nov 07, 2020
The six of us gathered at my house, and we walked to the polls. I'll never forget it. Not a Negro was on the streets, and when we got to the courthouse, the clerk said he wanted to talk with us. When we got into his office, some 15 or 20 armed white men surged in behind us - men I had grown up with, had played with.
- Hidden
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
I plan to live on campus in a dormitory and to do all the things any other student of the law school might do: use the library, eat in the dining hall, attend classes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I'm going to work for it - even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll be damned if I'm going to let the white man lick me. There's something out here that I've got to do for my kids, and I'm not going to stop until I've done it.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020