I Was In Jail When Medgar Evers

I Have Just As Much Right To Stay In America - In Fact, The Black People Have Contributed More To America Than Any Other Race, Because Our Kids Have Fought Here For What Was Called "democracy"; Our Mothers And Fathers Were Sold And Bought Here For A Price. So All I Can Say When They Say "go Back To Africa," I Say "when You Send The Chinese Back To China, The Italians Back To Italy, Etc., And You Get On That Mayflower From Whence You Came, And Give The Indians Their Land Back, Who Really Would Be Here At Home?"

[my Father] Did Get Enough Money To Buy Mules. We Didn't Have Tractors, But He Bought Mules, Wagons, Cultivators And Some Farming Equipment. As Soon As He Bought That And Decided To Rent Some Land, Because It Was Always Better If You Rent The Land, But As Soon As He Got The Mules And Wagons And Everything, Somebody Went To Our Trough - A White Man Who Didn't Live Very Far From Us - And He Fed The Mules Paris Green, Put It In Their Food And It Killed The Mules And Our Cows.

... Some Of My People Could Have Been Left [in Africa] And Are Living There. And I Can't Understand Them And They Don't Know Me And I Don't Know Them Because All We Had Was Taken Away From Us. And I Became Kind Of Angry; I Felt The Anger Of Why This Had To Happen To Us. We Were So Stripped And Robbed Of Our Background, We Wind Up With Nothing.

I Am Sick And Tired Of Being Sick And Tired.

In Coming To Atlantic City, We Believed Strongly That We Were Right. In Fact, It Was Just Right For Us To Come To Challenge The Seating Of The Regular Democratic Party From Mississippi. But We Didn't Think When We Got There That We Would Meet People, That Actually The Other Leaders Of The Movement Would Differ With What We Felt Was Right.