James Meredith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Thinking #Care #Civil Rights
The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.
-- 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

#Mean #Rights #Class
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
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

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.
I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's family name - she is in effect lost, evaporated from all records under her maiden name. I finally understand the anger behind feminism - the idea that as a woman you are property to be conveyed between your father and your husband, but never an individual who exists independently. And on the flip side, it is also one of the few ways one can legitimately get lost - no one questions it.
I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was â€” but I wanted to be there.
When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.
Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"
The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
How should they answer?
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.

James Meredith famous quotes

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