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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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

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When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult.

James Meredith

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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

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The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.

James Meredith

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I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year, confirming our university values of civility and respect. what it is saying is that the only possible justice for a black in the state of Mississippi is the federal government and if there's anything that we don't need it's that being our only means of expecting justice.

James Meredith

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There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.

James Meredith

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She texted me and said, ‘I need you to be calm,’ soon as she said that, I said, ‘This is not happening,’ and she said ‘It’s a girl,’.

James Meredith

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What it is saying is that the only possible justice for a black in the state of Mississippi is the federal government and if there's anything that we don't need it's that being our only means of expecting justice, i think Mississippi is better than that. If it's not better than that, it should be made better than that.

James Meredith

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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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Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.

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.

James Meredith

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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

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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.

James Meredith

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

James Meredith

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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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Integration is the biggest con job ever pulled on any group of people, any nationality in the world. It was a plot by white liberals to gain black political power for themselves and their wild ideas, and for a few black bourgeoisie who were paid to exercise leverage as black spokesmen.

James Meredith

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Only whites were allowed by law and practice to attend the University of Mississippi - a public institution supported by public dollars. Anything public and supported by public dollars is for me.

James Meredith

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I chose as my target the University of Mississippi, which in 1960 was the holiest temple of white supremacy in America, next to the U.S. Capitol and the White House, both of which were under the control of segregationists and their collaborators.

James Meredith

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Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.

James Meredith

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I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen.

James Meredith

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