"I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived."
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"We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.“
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"Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks."
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"Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it."
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"The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then."
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"There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience."
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