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Democracy has some good points, but it ain't hardly what most Americans think it is.

— James Meredith Interview with Jackson Free Press (2008)

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What any human being can do in life depends upon the foundation laid between birth and age five.

Interview with Esquire (2012)

To get people to see beyond themselves is the most difficult thing of all.

Interview with Esquire (2012)

What we need is to shift the focus from race and color to rich and poor.

Interview with Jackson Free Press (2008)

What I did at Ole Miss had nothing to do with going to classes. My objective was to destroy the system of white supremacy.

Interview with Esquire (2012)

I've always bragged about getting my principles from my father, but it was my momma who showed me how.

Interview with Esquire (2012)

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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