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.
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As quoted in The Martyrs: Sixteen Who Gave Their Lives for Racial Justice, What They Didn't Teach You In School: The Assassination Of Medgar Evers And The Murderer Who Walked Free For Three Decades in Buzzfeed (8 February 2022)