James Meredith Quotes
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The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.
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There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.
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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 the Constitution.
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Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
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When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult.
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I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year, confirming our university values of civility and respect. what it is saying is that the only possible justice for a black in the state of Mississippi is the federal government and if there's anything that we don't need it's that being our only means of expecting justice.
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