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.
タグ: like, always, justice, me

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Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.
タグ: nothing, past, future, time
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.
タグ: rebellion, america, understand, you
What I did at Ole Miss had nothing to do with going to classes. My objective was to destroy the system of white supremacy.
タグ: going, destroy, white, nothing
My momma was slick as greased lightning. She knew how to get anybody and everybody to do whatever she wanted 'em to do.
タグ: lightning, get, whatever, how, she
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
タグ: citizenship, more, nothing, me
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