Author: Medgar Evers

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If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

- Medgar Evers

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.

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.

- Medgar Evers

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.

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.

- Medgar Evers

You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too.

You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too.

- Medgar Evers

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.

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.

- Medgar Evers

Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.

Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.

- Medgar Evers

Freedom has never been free.

Freedom has never been free.

- Medgar Evers

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.

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.

- Medgar Evers

Our only hope is to control the vote.

Our only hope is to control the vote.

- Medgar Evers

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