When I Liberate Others, I Liberate Myself.

I Don't Know About The Press, But I Know In The Town Where I Live Everybody Was Aware That I Was In Africa, Because I Remember After I Got Back Some Of The People Told Me That Mayor Dura Of Our Town Said He Just Wished They Would Boil Me In Tar.

You Know What Really Made Me Sick? I Was In Washington, D.c. At Another Time Reading In A Paper Where The U.s. Gives Byron De La Beckwith - The Man Who Is Charged With Murdering Medgar Evers - They Were Giving Him So Much Money For Some Land And I Ask "is This America?" We Can No Longer Ignore The Fact That America Is Not The "land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave."

If I Fall, I Will Fall Five-feet Four-inches Forward In The Fight For Freedom.

My Parents Would Make Huge Crops Of Sometimes 55 To 60 Bales Of Cotton. Being From A Big Family Where There Were 20 Children, It Wasn't Too Hard To Pick That Much Cotton. But My Father, Year After Year, Didn't Get Too Much Money And I Remember He Just Kept Going.

Actually, Some Of The Things I Experienced As A Child Still Linger On; What The White Man Has Done To The Black People In The South!