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Nothing has been more detrimental to me than to be considered a symbol, because I never stood for any of that... The civil rights movement thought they would do me harm over the years by disassociating themselves from me. Well, nothing in the world was more to my advantage. I was never one of them... I had my own divine mission.
- James Meredith
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#Me
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#Nothing
#World
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.
- James Meredith
#America
#Answer
#Constitution
#Deal
My great-grandfather was the last ruler of the Choctaw Nation, and from birth, I was taught that my role was to restore the power and the glory to my bloodline.
- James Meredith
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#Glory
#Last
#Nation
#Power
If black people use their resources properly, they can become as competitive as any group in society - take control of our neighborhoods, our businesses, our schools, including our teachers. The only thing keeping black people from doing it is this idiotic idea about integration, about being racially balanced.
- James Meredith
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#Control
#Doing
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#Teachers
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
- James Meredith
#Citizenship
#Me
#More
#Nothing
#Rights
The real problem in Mississippi is almost a complete moral breakdown. In order to move Mississippi from the bottom to the top, all we have to do is just get people to do a little more what they know, to practice a little more of what they preach.
- James Meredith
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#Moral
#People
#Practice
#Real
I've always found the rhetoric of mainstream civil rights leaders and organizations to be far too timid, accommodationist, and gradualist. It always seemed to me that they behaved like meek and gentle supplicants begging the oppressor for a few crumbs of justice, for a few molecules of citizenship rights.
- James Meredith
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#Justice
#Me
#Oppressor
#Rights
My momma was slick as greased lightning. She knew how to get anybody and everybody to do whatever she wanted 'em to do.
- James Meredith
#Everybody
#How
#Lightning
#She
#Whatever
My statue at Ole Miss is a false idol. And it wasn't put there for my benefit. It was put there for Ole Miss and Mississippi.
- James Meredith
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#False
#Idol
#Miss
#Statue
It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I don't celebrate my humiliations and my insults.
- James Meredith
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#Celebrate
#Insult
#Me
#Movement
Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.
- James Meredith
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#Nothing
#Past
#Time
Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It's the federal government and the Justice Department. It's a fraud; it's a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.
- James Meredith
#Black
#Education
#Government
#Politics
Do you know how big of an insult that is to me - to say that I had to be brave to confront some ignorant white folks?
- James Meredith
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#Insult
#Know
#Me
#White
What I did at Ole Miss had nothing to do with going to classes. My objective was to destroy the system of white supremacy.
- James Meredith
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#Did
#Nothing
#System
#White
Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.
- James Meredith
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#Enemy
#Greatest
#Liberal
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