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'Blacks were too scared to do anything, but they came out to greet James Meredith': That would have been the story in the evening news if I hadn't gotten myself shot. I got shot, and that allowed the movement protest thing to take over then and do their thing.

~James Meredith

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Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.

~James Meredith

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

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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.

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You gotta understand - the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the United States. Now that has been a very difficult story for America to tell, but that's what actually happened.

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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.

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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.

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My momma was slick as greased lightning. She knew how to get anybody and everybody to do whatever she wanted 'em to do.

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Only the family of God can solve the problems of our time.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Celebrity

Born: June 25th, 1933

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