James Meredith

Celebrity

1933-06-25

Quotes by James Meredith

• 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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• 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.

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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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• I had developed a specifically calculated plan to break the system of white supremacy. My theory was that since Mississippi was the place, this was the ultimate: Mississippi was the place you had to break it.

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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.

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

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