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Medgar Evers Quotes

1925–1963 United States

Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 - June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, whowas murdered by Byron De La Beckwith. Evers, a decorated U.S.

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When you hate, the only person that is suffering is you because most of the people you hate don’t know it and the rest don't care.

I’m looking to be shot any time I step out of my car. If I die, it will be in a good cause. I’ve been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

All we wanted to be was ordinary citizens. We fought during the war for America and Mississippi was included. Now after the Germans and the Japanese hadn't killed us, it looked as though the white Mississippians would.

I was born in Decatur here in Mississippi, and when we were walking to school in the first grade white kids in their school buses would throw things at us and yell filthy things. This was a mild start. If you're a kid in Mississippi this is the elementary course.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Medgar Evers (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.