James Meredith Quotes

• 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

  Rights, Citizens, Insult

  James Meredith (2012). “A Mission from God: A Memoir and Challenge for America”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Father, Equality, America

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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

  Mean, Rights, Class

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

  James Meredith

  Men, Coward, Civil Rights

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

  James Meredith

  Thinking, Civil Rights, Care

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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

  Strong, Mean, Government

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